Graceful handling of first line

[Gerrit]

Peter Otten wrote:
>  >>> lines = iter("abc")
> >>> for first in lines:
> ...     print first
> ...     break
> ...
> a
> >>> for line in lines:
> ...     print line
> ...
> b
> c
> 
> Unless it hurts your feelings to unconditionally break out of a for-loop,
> that is.

How about:

>>> lines = iter("abc")
>>> first = lines.next()
>>> print first
a
>>> for line in lines:
...  print line
...
b
c

Would hurt less feeling I presume.

Gerrit.

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