"MonkeeSage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > But even so, here is a simple use case from the standard library > (python 2.5 release source): > > In Libs/site.py, lines 302-306: > > try: > for i in range(lineno, lineno + self.MAXLINES): > print self.__lines[i] > except IndexError: > break
Is there an outer loop being 'break'ed? If not, it should be pass instead. > With my proposal, that could be written as: > > for i in range(lineno, lineno + self.MAXLINES): > if self.__lines.has_index(i): > print self.__lines[i] > else: > break This break is swallowed by the for loop, so not exactly equivalent, I think. In any case, these are both clumsy and I believe I would instead write something like for i in range(lineno, len(self.__lines)): print self.__lines[i] or even better, use islice -- for line in islice(...): print line So not a persuasive use case to me. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
