is for reliable?

[Terry Reedy]

Yes.

<pabloski at giochinternet.com> wrote in message 
news:BmL%h.781$%k.3759 at twister2.libero.it...
| Hi to all I have a question about the for statement of python. I have the
| following piece of code where cachefilesSet is a set that contains the
| names of 1398 html files cached on my hard disk
[snip]|
| this code stops at the 473th file instead of reaching 1398

In what way does it stop?  Exception and traceback?

| however I changed the for and substituted it with a while in this way
|
| while cachefilesSet:
|    fn = cachefilesSet.pop()
|    .......
|    .......
|
| the while loop reaches the 1398th file and is some 3-4 times faster than
| the for loop

Perhaps you have a broken installation.  What version,system,compiler?

tjr