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Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this?

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On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 13:05, Mario Figueiredo wrote:
> In article <qot7fw8s3la.fsf@ruuvi.it.helsinki.fi>, 
> jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi says...
> > 
> > If you mean literally some_predicate, then perhaps this.
> > 
> > if some_predicate:
> >    for x in seq:
> >       handle(x)
> > 
> 
> Careful. See Chris Warrick answer for the correct position of the 'if' 
> statement.

I think by "if you mean literally some_predicate" he was taking
some_predicate as a variable [rather than an expression] that does not
change during the loop. That'd be a silly thing to do in the originally
posted code, though, since it'd be easier to do "[] if not
some_predicate else [...]"

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Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> - 2015-01-27 08:15 -0500
  Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-27 06:08 -0800
  Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-01-27 16:25 +0200
    Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> - 2015-01-27 09:37 -0500
      Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-01-27 16:47 +0200
    Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-01-27 19:05 +0100
      Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? random832@fastmail.us - 2015-01-27 13:13 -0500
    Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> - 2015-01-27 13:25 -0500
  Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-28 11:55 +1100
    Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-01-28 02:19 +0100
      Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-28 12:29 +1100
        Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-01-28 09:32 +0100
      Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-28 13:16 +1100

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