Think Python: Chapter 7 Iteration(迭代) 笔记

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Chapter 7 Iteration(迭代)

7.1 Multiple assignment(多重任务，多次赋值)

multiple assignment: Making more than one assignment to the same variable during the execution of a program.(注意赋值次序)

7.2 Updating variables

update: An assignment where the new value of the variable depends on the old.
initialization(初始化): An assignment that gives an initial value to a variable that will be updated.
increment(递增): An update that increases the value of a variable (often by one).
decrement(递减): An update that decreases the value of a variable.

7.3 The while statement

iteration(迭代): Repeated execution of a set of statements using either a recursive function call or a loop.
Because iteration is so common, Python provides several language features to make it easier. One is the for statement we saw in Section 4.2. We’ll get back to that later.

#5.8 recursion 循环语句-用if
def countdown(n):
    if n<=0:
        print('Blastoff')
    else:
        print(n)
        countdown(n-1)

Another is the while statement. Here is a version of countdown that uses a while statement:

#7.3 iteration 循环语句-用while
def countdown2(n):
    while n>0:
        print n
        n=n-1
    print('Blastoff')

infinite loop(无限循环): A loop in which the terminating condition is never satisfied.

if,while;循环,迭代的差别
if代表的是recursion(循环),是函数里面再嵌入函数;
while代表的是iteration(迭代),是自动迭代

7.4 break

Sometimes you don’t know it’s time to end a loop until you get half way through the body.In that case you can use the break statement to jump out of the loop:

while True:
    line = raw_input('>' )
    if line == 'done' :