On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 04:40:26 -0800, rusi wrote: > On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 5:48:59 PM UTC+5:30, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to extracted elements from a heapq in a for loop. >> I feel my solution below is much too complicated. >> How to do it more elegantly? >> I know I could use a while loop but I don't like it. > > How about > > def in_sequence(h): > for i in range(len(h)): > yield heapq.heappop(h) > > Yeah its a bit fiddly: > 1. i needed for for but not used > 2. The range in the for loop -- normally a python 'smell' > > If python3 > > def ins3(h): > yield from (heapq.heappop(h) for i in range(len(h)))
Many thanks, I'm using Python3 anyway! Helmut -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
