Idiom for consecutive loops?

[Harald Kirsch]

bellman at lysator.liu.se (Thomas Bellman) writes:

> When looping over a list, how about this:
> 
>     lit = iter(haralds_list)
>     for item in lit:
> 	justDoIt(lit)
> 	if someTest(lit):
> 	    break
>     for item in lit:
> 	doSomethingElse(lit)
> 
> It doesn't work if you are using some stone-age version of
> Python, like the two and a half week old 2.1.1.  You've got
> to use something modern, like 2.2a1 (which seems to actually
> be a couple of days *older* than 2.1.1...).

Aah, that's what I was looking for. Too bad I cannot jump right on a
a1 release.

Thanks,
  Harald Kirsch
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