On 6/11/07, Andre Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2007/6/11, ahlongxp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > list=('a','d','c','d')
> > for a in list:
> > if a=='a' :
> > #skip the letter affer 'a'
> >
> > what am I supposed to do?
>
> There might be better ways to do it, but I would do:
>
> flag_last_a = False
> for a in list:
> if flag_last_a:
> flag_last_a = False
> continue
> if a=='a':
> flag_last_a = True
> # Whatever is done when you don't skip
>
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another way:
def skip_after(l):
i = iter(l)
for x in i:
yield x
while x == 'a':
x = i.next()
depending on what to do in case of consecutive 'a's, change the
'while' for an 'if'
list(skip_after('spam aand eggs'))
['s', 'p', 'a', ' ', 'a', 'd', ' ', 'e', 'g', 'g', 's']
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