Alternative iterator syntax

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Wed Feb 21 15:29:35 EST 2001


In article <m31ysru8ws.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
Michael Hudson  <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>Nah, reset the allocator every time item 0 is asked for.  I'd have to
>admit I haven't read Huaiyu Zhu's proposal carefully enough to be sure
>this would work, but something like this ought to be possible, I'd
>have thought.
>
>I mean,
>
>l = range(10)
>for i in l:
>   # do some stuff
>for i in l:
>   # do some other stuff
>
>will have to do something along these lines, no?

Nope.  In Huaiyu's proposal, l will be a real list and each of the two
for loops will create a new iterator.
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