On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:54 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > Somewhat related in 2.6 there's the next() built-in which accepts a default > value. You can provide a sentinel and test for that instead of using > try...except:
Thanks. This can be useful in some of the simpler cases. As you surely realize, to be perfectly safe, especially when the iterable can contain any value (including your sentinel), we must use an out-of-band return value, hence an exception is the only truly safe solution. -- Tom -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
