On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:06 PM, Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I understand about removing elements from a container you're iterating. Is >> data.remove(x) problematic in this context? > > Yes. It can cause the iteration to skip elements of the list. For example: In [1]: l=range(5) In [2]: for i in l: ...: print i ...: if i==2: ...: l.remove(i) ...: ...: 0 1 2 4 Notice how 3 is skipped. Don't do this! Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
