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Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2013-08-08 04:40 -0700
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Subject Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists
From Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com>

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On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:12:53 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Neatu Ovidiu <neat...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The possible cases I can think of would be better served with list comprehensions (what you seem to want is to create lists based on other lists) - but maybe I'm missing something.  Could we have one example?
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> N.

This can be useful for doing all kinds of basic stuff. For example if you wanted to take 4 items of a list at at a time, do something with them and then update the list.

jobs = ['job1', 'job2', 'job3', 'job5', 'job6', 'job7', 'job8', 'job9', 'job10']
while jobs:
    print jobs.pop_slice(0,4)

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Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu Gabriel <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 02:45 -0700
  Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-08-08 12:07 +0200
    Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 03:38 -0700
      Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 12:12 +0100
        Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 04:40 -0700
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-08-08 09:20 -0500
        Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 04:44 -0700
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 04:50 -0700
            Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 14:08 +0100
              Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 06:32 -0700
                Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Nicholas Cole <nicholas.cole@gmail.com> - 2013-08-08 15:03 +0100
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-08 16:03 -0400
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-08-08 22:32 +0100
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-08-08 16:50 -0500
          Re: Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-08-08 18:10 -0400

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