On 31 August 2013 16:30, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> but doesn't solve all the cases (imagine a string or an iterator). > > Similar but maybe simpler, and copes with more arbitrary iterables: > > it=iter(range(5)) > print(next(it), end='') > for i in it: > print('',i, end='')
If you want to work with arbitrary iterables then you'll want it = iter(iterable) try: val = next(it) except StopIteration: pass # Or raise or something? else: print(val, end='') for i in it: print('', i, end='') Oscar -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list