On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:48:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) wrote: >On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 23:27:54 +0100, "Gabriel F. Alcober" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >>Hi! There goes a newbie trouble: >> >>for i in range(0, len(subject)): >> if subject[i] in preps: >> psubject.append(noun_syn_parser(subject[0:i])) >> subject[0:i] = [] >> >Perhaps (untested!): > >start = 0 >for i, subj in enumerate(subject): > if subj in preps: > psubject.append(noun_syn_parser(subject[start:i])) > start = i >subject = subject[start:] # optional if you don't need the leftovers > Mitja's last line (I didn't see his post -- forwarding delays I presume) subject[0:lastFound] = [] would not rebind, so that better reflects the OP's subject[0:i] = [] line.
Perhaps the enumerate was useful ;-/ Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
