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Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile

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Date 2013-06-25 00:35 +0100
Subject Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile
From Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On 25 Jun 2013 00:31, "alex23" <wuwei23@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 25/06/2013 6:12 AM, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:52 PM,  <jimjhb@aol.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Syntax:
>>> fwhile X in ListY and conditionZ:
>>>
>>> fwhile would act much like 'for', but would stop if the condition after
the
>>> 'and' is no longer True.
>>
>>
>> I would advocate using the break myself.  Another alternative is this:
>>
>> for X in itertools.takewhile(lambda X: conditionZ, ListY):
>>      ...
>
>
> I'd probably just go with a generator expression to feed the for loop:
>
>     for X in (i for i in ListY if conditionZ):
>         ....

That is nice but it's not lazy. If the condition or the iterables took too
long to compute, it would be troublesome.

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Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-06-24 14:12 -0600
  Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 09:14 +1000
    Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 00:35 +0100
      Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 10:00 +1000
        Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 01:19 +0100
        Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile wu wei <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-06-25 10:41 +1000
        Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-06-24 22:50 -0600
    Re: Is this PEP-able? fwhile rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-06-24 23:04 -0700

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