ceciliasei...@gmx.de, 23.01.2010 17:29: > Arnaud Delobelle wrote: >> ceciliasei...@gmx.de writes: >> >>> As you were talking about list.pop()... >>> >>> Is anyone able to reproduce the following and explain why this happens >>> by chance? (Using 3.1.1) >>> >>> l1 = ["ready", "steady", "go"] >>> l2 = ["one", "two", "tree"] >>> l3 = ["lift off"] >>> >>> for w in l1: > > Ouch... thanks Arnaud... The stable way would've been > > for w in l1[:]: #use copy of l1 for iteration > print(l1.pop()) #decomposite list
If the intention is to exhaust the list during the iteration, I'd go for this: while l1: print(l1.pop()) Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list