On Dec 30, 4:12 pm, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 30, 3:29 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > One "recipe" is extracting blocks from text files that are delimited by a > > special start and end line. > > Neat solution! > > I actually need such functionality every once in a while. > > Takewhile + dropwhile to the rescue! > > i.
On at least one thread and a recipe for this task (http:// aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/521877), the proposed solutions involved groupby() with an appropriate key function. The takewhile/dropwhile solution seems shorter and (maybe) easier to read but perhaps not as flexible and general. Regardless, it's a good example of takewhile/dropwhile. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
