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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:47:40 -0600
Subject: Re: while expression feature proposal
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:21 AM, Thomas Rachel
> <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de>
> wrote:
>>> j = next(j for j in iter(partial(randrange, n), None) if j not in
>>> selected)
>>
>>
>> This generator never ends. If it meets a non-matching value, it just skips
>> it and goes on.
>
> next() only returns one value.  After it is returned, the generator is
> discarded, whether it has ended or not.  If there were no valid values
> for randrange to select, then it would descend into an infinite loop.
> But then, so would the dropwhile and the original while loop.

To demonstrate that the code does in fact return:

>>> selected = set(range(5))
>>> n = 10
>>> from functools import partial
>>> from random import randrange
>>> j = next(j for j in iter(partial(randrange, n), None) if j not in selected)
>>> j
5