On Aug 12, 4:51 pm, ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A container object provides a method that returns an iterator object. > I need to iterate the sequence with that iterator, but need to skip > the first item. I can only iterate the whole sequence with: > for x in container.iterChildren(): > How to skip the first item? It seems that it's a simple question. > Could somebody help me? Thanks.
Does the for loop -have- to contain the reference to iterChildren? If you can modify that, you can always manually step past the first item: children = container.iterChildren() children.next() for x in children: ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list