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Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:08:04 +1000
Subject: Re: print function and unwanted trailing space
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:43 AM, Oscar Benjamin
<oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 August 2013 16:30, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> but doesn't solve all the cases (imagine a string or an iterator).
>>
>> Similar but maybe simpler, and copes with more arbitrary iterables:
>>
>> it=iter(range(5))
>> print(next(it), end='')
>> for i in it:
>>     print('',i, end='')
>
> If you want to work with arbitrary iterables then you'll want
>
> it = iter(iterable)
> try:
>     val = next(it)
> except StopIteration:
>     pass  # Or raise or something?
> else:
>     print(val, end='')
> for i in it:
>     print('', i, end='')

I went with this version:

except StopIteration:
    raise

In other words, if it's going to bomb, let it bomb :)

ChrisA