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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 16:00:12 +0200
Subject: Re: for...else
From: acdr <mail.acdr@gmail.com>
To: Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com>
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The first solution in your e-mail (with a Cleanup exception) is
definitely very close, functionally, to what I want to accomplish. In
effect, it's the same structure as my original suggestion of
"for...then...else", except now it'd be "try: for...else...except".
That's workable. I can even cheat and rename the Cleanup class to
"Break" for clarity.

I'm guessing that there is not much support for functionality like
this to be built in, in a much less verbose manner, like the
"for...else" functionality? :P

On 6/2/15, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "acdr" <mail.acdr@gmail.com>
>> To: "Jean-Michel Pichavant" <jeanmichel@sequans.com>
>> Cc: python-list@python.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, 2 June, 2015 2:52:21 PM
>> Subject: Re: for...else
>>
>> That would work for my example, but it would only really work if all
>> the calculations are in a nice function.
>
> You cannot blame me for considering the example you provided ;)
>
> What about this:
>
> class Cleanup(Exception): pass
>
> try:
>   for x in it:
>     if c1():
>       raise Cleanup()
>     c2()
>     if c3():
>       raise Cleanup()
> except Cleanup:
>   #do the cleanup
>    pass
>
> If you can make c1 c3 raise themselves Cleanup, it's even better.
>
> Now if you're able to write a cleanup function that can handle the case when
> there's nothing to clean, everything becomes crystal clear:
>
> from contextlib import contextmanager
>
> @contextmanager
> def cleanup():
>   yield
>   # here do the cleaning
>   print 'I am cleaning'
>
> def do_the_job():
>   if c1() : return
>   c2()
>   if c3() : return
>
> with cleanup():
>   do_the_job()
>
> JM
>
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