Python, the number one programming language in the TIOBE Programming Language Community Index in August, has further solidified its place at the top.

Many programs have a need to iterate over a large list of generated data. The conventional way to do this would be to calculate the values for the list and populate it, then loop over the whole thing.

I'm a noobie to real programming, i've done shell scripting before and just recently started reading some python docs. I've been in several situations now where I want to iterate over an object's ...