Simulating C-style for loops in python

Question

(even the title of this is going to cause flames, I realize)

Python made the deliberate design choice to have the for loop use explicit iterables, with

Answer 1

Heh:

def forre(a,i,c,top,increment,run):
    increment = increment.replace("++","+=1").replace("--","-=1").replace("; ","")
    while i != top:
        try: exec(run)
        except: print "error: "; print run
        try: exec(increment)
        except: print "error: "; print increment

forre("int i=",0,"; i<",6,"; i++", 
    "print i"
    )