On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
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> For loops are pythonic. You can do this in Python today:
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> client = StrictRedis()
> for profile_id in iter(lambda: client.spop("profile_ids"), None):
> pass
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> I would like a better iter(), rather than a better while l
On Thursday, October 25, 2012 11:06:01 PM UTC-7, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Dan Loewenherz writes:
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> > In this case, profile_id is "None" when the loop breaks. It would be
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> > much more straightforward (and more Pythonic, IMO), to write:
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> >
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>
It seems the topic of this thread has changed drastically from the original
message.
1) "while EXPR as VAR" in no way says that EXPR must be a boolean value. In
fact, a use case I've run into commonly in web development is popping from a
redis set. E.g.
client = StrictRedis()
while Tru
Hi all,
This is my first post to this group--I'm not subscribed, so please CC
me in responses.
So I'm sure a lot of you have run into the following pattern. I use it
all the time and it always has felt a bit awkward due to the duplicate
variable assignment.
VAR = EXPR
while VAR:
BLOCK
VA
