On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:34:17 GMT, William McBrine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look at this -- from Python 2.5.1: > >>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] >>>> for x in a: > ... if x == 3: > ... a.remove(x) > ... print x > ... > 1 > 2 > 3 > 5 >>>> a > [1, 2, 4, 5]
You have to iterate over a copy of 'a', so for x in a[:]. Modifying a list while iterating over is a recipe for problems. (As it is in many other programming languages.) Berteun -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
