On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 10:24:16 +0200, Robert Bossy wrote:
> John Machin wrote:
>> On Apr 25, 5:44 pm, Robert Bossy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Peter Otten wrote:
>>> If the OP insists in not examining a[0] and a[1], this will do exactly
>>> the same as the while version:
>>>
>>> for p in a[2:]:
>>> if p:
>>> print p
>>>
>>>
>>
>> ... at the cost of almost doubling the amount of memory required.
> Indeed. Would it be a sensible proposal that sequence slices should
> return an iterator instead of a list?
I don't think so as that would break tons of code that relies on the
current behavior. Take a look at `itertools.islice()` if you want/need
an iterator.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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