weird iteration/assignment problem

[cirfu]

for i in xrange(0, len(texts)):
texts = "yes"

for i in texts:
i = "no"

why is the first one working but not the second. i mean i see why the
firts one works but i dont udnerstand why the second doesnt.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

for i in xrange(0, len(texts)):
texts = "yes"

for i in texts:
i = "no"

why is the first one working but not the second. i mean i see why the
firts one works but i dont udnerstand why the second doesnt.

Because in the second you only bind the contents of texts to a name i.

But that doesn't mean that i magically became an "alias" for
texts[index] - it just happens to point at the same object.

To accomplish what you want, the pythonic idiom is to use enumerate:

for i, text in enumerate(texts):
text = "yes"

Diez

 

[Matimus]

for i in xrange(0, len(texts)):
texts = "yes"

for i in texts:
i = "no"

why is the first one working but not the second. i mean i see why the
firts one works but i dont udnerstand why the second doesnt.

Because in the second you only bind the contents of texts to a name i.

But that doesn't mean that i magically became an "alias" for
texts[index] - it just happens to point at the same object.

To accomplish what you want, the pythonic idiom is to use enumerate:

for i, text in enumerate(texts):
text = "yes"

Diez

That should be:

for i, text in enumerate(texts):
texts = "yes"