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Subject: Re: "Backward"-Iterator - Beginners question
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On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Ulrich Goebel <ml@fam-goebel.de> wrote:
> That gives me the solution. What I have, is an iterator object comming as a
> SQLite database cursor object. So I could minimize the underliying SELECT
> and build index = list(cursor). Then with Your hints I get what I want.

Looks good! If you need to iterate over something more than once, or
go back and forth through it a bit, this is probably the best general
solution anyway. With a list, heaps of things are easy, and unless
you're working with gobs of data, you won't have any problems.

ChrisA