Conditional iteration

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2006-12-13, Roberto Bonvallet <Roberto.Bonvallet at cern.ch> wrote:
> at wrote:
>> More pythonic in view would be:
>> 
>> for x in [-2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4] if x > 0:
>>        ... more code ...
>
> Pythonic?  Do you realize that Python hasn't even adopted
> well-known statements like 'switch' and 'do while' because they
> would be redundant?
>
> This could be more convenient to you, but certainly not
> pythonic.  Cheers,

I tried it once myself. It seemed like a feasible thing that
might work in Python. It didn't annoy me that it didn't work, but
it did seem natural to me given the syntax of comprehensions.

-- 
Neil Cerutti