On Aug 20, 5:06 am, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In your case, the standard Python idiom, as Jon said, is > > it = iter(iterable) > next(it) # 2.6, 3.0 > for for item in iterable: > f(item)
or, perhaps, for completeness/paranoia/whatever: it = iter(iterable) try: headings = it.next() # < 2.5 except StopIteration: # code to handle empty <iterable> for item etc etc > The alternative is a flag variable and test > > first = True > for for item in iterable: > if first: > first = False > else: > f(item) > > This takes two more lines and does an unnecessary test for every line > after the first. But this approach might be useful if, for instance, > you needed to skip every other line (put 'first = True' after f(item)). and change its name from 'first' to something more meaningful ;-) Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
