Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #44199

Re: Nested iteration?

References <kl6a1f$k2l$1@panix2.panix.com> <CAPTjJmpKR8z7Cub1WaurmsuugNgCvPYFdh9WYqJd_1OTfpLw6Q@mail.gmail.com>
From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2013-04-23 10:30 -0600
Subject Re: Nested iteration?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.984.1366735164.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> The definition of the for loop is sufficiently simple that this is
> safe, with the caveat already mentioned (that __iter__ is just
> returning self). And calling next() inside the loop will simply
> terminate the loop if there's nothing there, so I'd not have a problem
> with code like that - for instance, if I wanted to iterate over pairs
> of lines, I'd happily do this:
>
> for line1 in f:
>   line2=next(f)
>   print(line2)
>   print(line1)
>
> That'll happily swap pairs, ignoring any stray line at the end of the
> file. Why bother catching StopIteration just to break?

The next() there will *not* "simply terminate the loop" if it raises a
StopIteration; for loops do not catch StopIteration exceptions that
are raised from the body of the loop.  The StopIteration will continue
to propagate until it is caught or it reaches the sys.excepthook.  In
unusual circumstances, it is even possible that it could cause some
*other* loop higher in the stack to break (i.e. if the current code is
being run as a result of the next() method being called by the looping
construct).

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Nested iteration? roy@panix.com (Roy Smith) - 2013-04-23 11:40 -0400
  Re: Nested iteration? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 17:05 +0100
  Re: Nested iteration? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 10:05 -0600
  Re: Nested iteration? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-04-23 18:15 +0200
  Re: Nested iteration? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-24 02:21 +1000
  Re: Nested iteration? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-23 16:35 +0000
  Re: Nested iteration? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 10:30 -0600
  Re: Nested iteration? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 10:39 -0600
  Re: Nested iteration? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-04-24 02:42 +1000
    Re: Nested iteration? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-04-23 16:53 +0000
  Re: Nested iteration? Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-04-23 16:49 -0400
  Re: Nested iteration? Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 22:14 +0100
  Re: Nested iteration? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 22:29 +0100
  Re: Nested iteration? Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 22:41 +0100
  Re: Nested iteration? Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> - 2013-04-23 23:42 +0100

csiph-web