Afternoon,
Python 3.
I'm iterating through a list and I'd like to know when I'm at
the end of the said list, so I can do something different. For example
list_of_things = ['some', 'special', 'things']
for each_entry in list_of_things:
print(each_entry)
if each_entry == list_of_things[-1]: # do something special to
last entry
...etc
Is this the idiomatic way to detect you're at the last entry in a list
as you iterate through it?
For context, I'm working my way through a (csv) file which describes
some database tables. I'm building the Oracle DDL to create that table
as I go. When I find myself building the last column, I want to finish
the definition with a ");" rather than the usual "," which occurs at the
end of all other column definitions...
e.g.
CREATE TABLE wibble
(
Col1 CHAR(2),
Col2 NUMBER(5,2),
);
Regards,
Steve.
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