On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:37:10 +0000, Chris Bromley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any help would be greatly appreciated! Others have already pointed out that we will have a hard time helping without a bit more information. But I've noticed something odd in your code -- it probably doesn't have anything to do with your problem, but it seems like an awkward idiom to me. > fc = fcs.next() > > while fc: > # [...] > fc = fcs.next() This, it seems to me, is equivalent to (but less readable than) the following: . for fc in fcs: . # [...] If you're going to do something with every member of a list, then it's much more straightforward to use a for loop (which automatically tracks the iteration) than to use a while loop and manually adjusting the loop-controlling expression. Actually, it occurs to me that this *might* cause a confusing result in your code. Presuming that fcs is a standard iterator (as your usage of next() suggests), then calling next() on an exhausted iterator will raise a StopIteration exception. The for loop will automatically handle that, but with your while loop it would be caught by the following bare except statement. That means that you'll run (what I presume to be) your error-handling code even when you successfully convert every member of fcs... Jeff Shannon _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
