permuting letters and fairy tales
Kent Johnson
kent3737 at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 13 08:40:24 EST 2004
Bengt Richter wrote:
> But it does bring up a general problem of final logic in an iter loop. ISTM it could
> be useful to have an option not to raise StopIteration, but instead keep returning
> a specified sentinel at the end, something like file.read returns '' repeatedly at EOF.
From the itertools examples:
>>> def padnone(seq):
... "Returns the sequence elements and then returns None indefinitely"
... return chain(seq, repeat(None))
Kent
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