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Re: Best way to check that you are at the beginning (the end) of an iterable?

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On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess enumerate is the best way to check for first argument. Note that if someone passes you the iterator as argument you have now way of checking if the consumed items from it.
>
> istail can be implemented using itertools.chain, see https://gist.github.com/1202260

For the archives, if Gist ever goes down:

from itertools import chain

def istail(it):
    '''Check if iterator has one more element. Return True/False and
    iterator.'''
    try:
        i = next(it)
    except StopIteration:
        return False, it

    try:
        j = next(it)
        return False, chain([i, j], it)
    except StopIteration:
        return True, chain([i], it)


t, it = istail(iter([]))
print t, list(it)
t, it = istail(iter([1]))
print t, list(it)
t, it = istail(iter([1, 2]))
print t, list(it)

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Best way to check that you are at the beginning (the end) of an iterable? Laurent <laurent.payot@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 14:35 -0700
  Re: Best way to check that you are at the beginning (the end) of an iterable? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2011-09-08 08:48 +1000
    Re: Best way to check that you are at the beginning (the end) of an iterable? Laurent <laurent.payot@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 16:22 -0700
    Re: Best way to check that you are at the beginning (the end) of an iterable? Laurent <laurent.payot@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 16:22 -0700
      Re: Best way to check that you are at the beginning (the end) of an iterable? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2011-09-08 10:23 +1000
        Re: Best way to check that you are at the beginning (the end) of an iterable? Laurent <laurent.payot@gmail.com> - 2011-09-07 17:53 -0700
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