Last iteration?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

"Raymond Hettinger" <pyt...cn.com> wrote:

> More straight-forward version:
> 
> def lastdetecter(iterable):
>     t, lookahead = tee(iterable)
>     lookahead.next()
>     return izip(chain(imap(itemgetter(0), izip(repeat(False),
> lookahead)), repeat(True)), t)

If this is what you call straightforward - heaven forfend
that I ever clap my orbs on something you call convoluted!

:-)

Faced with this problem, I would probably have used
enumerate with a look ahead and the IndexError would
have told me I am at the end...

- Hendrik