oops, stand corrected. I was under the impression that an exception would break out of the current expression and forgot that the "for" would contain it(that StopIteration is a condition to it expects to stop it).
thanks, this is the functionality I am looking for. Alex Martelli wrote: > Can you give one example where this stop() function wouldn't work and > your hypothetical ``when'' would? I don't see how "it breaks out of the > whole thing expression" -- it terminates ONE for-clause (and what else > would your cherished ``when'' do?). > > > Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
