How to detect the last element in a for loop

[Andreas Kostyrka]

Am Son, 2002-07-28 um 15.16 schrieb Tom Verbeure:
> 
> 
> > For a simple solution, how about:
> > 
> > for a in myList[:-1]:
> >      do_stuff(a)
> > special_stuff(myList[-1])
> 
> No, I still want to do 'do_stuff' for the last element also. This may be, 
> say, 10 lines of code. Too much to duplicate it outside the loop, not 
> enough for a separate function...
Then do this:
for a in myList:
	do_stuff(a):
if myList:
	special_stuff(myList[-1])

Andreas