On 07/11/2020 09:16 PM, Rob Cliffe via Python-ideas wrote:
My gut feeling (backed by no evidence) is that dealing with the case of zero
iterations is not needed frequently enough to cater for it.
My personal experience is that the case of no iterations is frequent enough,
and a big enough pain to deal with, that if we're making changes we should
include a way to deal with it. Currently:
if empty_iterable:
# do whatever
else:
for it in iterable:
# do something
or maybe:
obj = object
for obj in some_iterator:
do_stuff()
if obj is object:
# iterator was empty
do_different_stuff()
Either way,
for obj in iterator:
do_stuff
elif empty:
do_other_stuff()
would be much nicer.
--
~Ethan~
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