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Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements

From Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements
Date 2013-02-08 12:11 +0100
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Am 08.02.2013 07:29 schrieb Rick Johnson:

> Consider this:
>
>      if connect("my:db") as db:
>          <do something>
>
> No need to make a call and then test for the validity of the call when you can do both simultaneously AND intuitively.

Would be great, but can be emulated with

def ifiter(x):
     if x: yield x

for db in ifiter(connect("my:db")):
     <do sth with db>

Is not very intuitive, however, but does its job.


Thomas

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Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-07 22:29 -0800
  Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2013-02-08 12:11 +0100
  Re: Implicit conversion to boolean in if and while statements alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-02-10 18:38 -0800

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