Re: Pythonic infinite for loop?

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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:
>>   sentinel = object()
>>   seq = (dct.get('Keyword%d'%i,sentinel) for i in count(1))
>>   lst = list(takewhile(lambda x: x != sentinel, seq))
>
> If I understand this code correctly, that's creating generators,
> right? It won't evaluate past the sentinel at all?

Right, it should stop after hitting the sentinel once.

> That might well be what I'm looking for. A bit ugly, but efficient and
> compact. And I can bury some of the ugliness away.

It occurs to me, operator.ne might be a little faster than the
interpreted lambda.

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Pythonic infinite for loop? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 12:10 +1000
  Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2011-04-15 03:33 +0100
  Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-04-15 02:33 +0000
    Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 13:58 +1000
      Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-04-15 12:52 +0000
        Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2011-04-15 09:13 -0400
        Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 01:35 +1000
          Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-15 09:10 -0700
  Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-15 00:24 -0700
    Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 17:35 +1000
      Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2011-04-15 00:47 -0700
        Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-04-15 10:11 +0200
  Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-04-15 10:25 +0200
    Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-15 18:32 +1000
      Re: Pythonic infinite for loop? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2011-04-15 11:32 +0200
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