On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> But there's no need to go to such effort for a mutable iterator. This is
> much simpler:
>
> py> mi = list('bananas')
> py> for char in mi:
> ... if char == 'a':
> ... mi.extend(' yum')
> ... print(char, end='')
> ... else: # oh no, the feared for...else!
> ... # needed to prevent the prompt overwriting the output
> ... print()
> ...
> bananas yum yum yum
> py>
One small difference with this approach is that iterators extended
onto the list are iterated over immediately rather than in sequence.
That could have implications in some scenarios.
--
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
