On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Michael Welle <mwe012...@gmx.net> wrote: >> In that case, don't iterate over the list at all. Do something like this: >> >> while lst: >> element = lst.pop(0) >> # work with element >> lst.append(new_element) >> >> There's no mutation-while-iterating here, and it's clear that you'll >> keep going until there's absolutely nothing left. > Ah, that looks like a good approach, thank you.
Also note that this approach (appending to the end and popping from the front) will be more efficient using a collections.deque than a list. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
