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Re: Cycle around a sequence

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On 2012-02-08, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm looking at a way of cycling around a sequence i.e. starting
> at some given location in the middle of a sequence and running
> to the end before coming back to the beginning and running to
> the start place.  About the best I could come up with is the
> following, any better ideas for some definition of better?

Python's indices were designed for these kinds of shenanigans.

def rotated(seq, n):
    """Iterate through all of seq, but starting from index n.

    >>> ", ".join(str(n) for n in rotated(range(5), 3))
    '3, 4, 0, 1, 2'
    """

    i = n - len(seq)
    while i < n:
        yield seq[i]
        i += 1

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import doctest
    doctest.testmod()

If you have merely an iterable instead of a sequence, then look
to some of the other clever stuff already posted.

-- 
Neil Cerutti

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Cycle around a sequence Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-08 01:10 +0000
  Re: Cycle around a sequence Christoph Hansen <ch@radamanthys.de> - 2012-02-08 03:01 +0100
  Re: Cycle around a sequence Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-02-08 14:25 +0000
    Re: Cycle around a sequence Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-02-08 15:15 -0500
    Re: Cycle around a sequence Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-08 22:47 +0000
    Re: Cycle around a sequence Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2012-02-09 12:10 +0200
  Re: Cycle around a sequence Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-02-09 03:55 +0000
    Re: Cycle around a sequence Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-09 15:16 +1100
    Re: Cycle around a sequence Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-02-09 09:33 +0100
    Re: Cycle around a sequence Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-09 21:34 +1100

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