this is simple...

[ToshiBoy]

On Jun 28, 2:48 pm, Mel <mwil... at the-wire.com> wrote:
> ToshiBoy wrote:
> > I have two lists A and B that are both defined as range(1,27) I want
> > to find the entries that are valid for A = BxB
> [ ... ]
> > I get, as expected 1,4,9,16,25 printed out being the only members of B
> > where the condition is true, but when I print B I get:
>
> > [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25]
>
> > 1 to 5 is correct, but why doesn't the remove method remove 7 and
> > above? What am I doing wrong here?
>
> Try this:
>
> A = range(1,27)
> B = range(1,27)
> C = []
>
> for b in B:
>     print "Trying", b
>     if b*b in A:
>         print b
>         C.append (b)
>     else:
>         print "Removing", b
>         B.remove(b)
> print 'B', B
> print 'C', C
>
> The essential problem is that your `B.remove`s are pulling the rug out from
> under your `for b in B:`.  There are ways to mess with B while you iterate.
> Running though B backwards will do: `for b in B[::-1]:`, or iterating over
> a copy of B: `for b in B[:]:` or `for b in list(B):`.  Leaving B alone and
> building up the desired items in C is probably simplest.
>
>         Mel.

Thank you, of course! :-) Didn't even think of that... that I was
modifying my iterators...

Thank you