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| Date | Mon, 13 Jan 2014 10:00:46 +0100 |
| From | Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> |
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> Unless L is aliased, this is silly code.
There is another use case. If you intend to modify a list within a for
loop that goes over the same list, then you need to iterate over a copy.
And this cannot be called an "alias" because it has no name:
for idx,item in enumerate(L[:]):
# do something with L here, including modification
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