Christopher Subich wrote:
> One caevat that I just noticed, though -- with the for-solution, you do
> need to be careful about whether you're using a generator or list if you
> do not set an explicit initial value (and instead use the first value of
> 'sequence' as the start). The difference is:
> _accum = g.next()
> for i in g: _accum = stuff(_accum,i)
>
> versus
> _accum = g[0]
> for i in g[1:]: _accum = stuff(_accum,i)
If you want to be general for all iterables (list, generators, etc), you
can write the code like:
itr = iter(g)
_accum = itr.next()
for i in itr:
_accum = stuff(_accum, i)
STeVe
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