Time travel - how to simplify?

[Ben Finney]

Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> writes:

>     import itertools
>
>     month_values = sorted(list(fut_suffix.keys()))
>     month_cycle = itertools.cycle(month_values)
>
>     month_choice = 7
>     three_months_starting_at_choice = []
>     while len(three_months_starting_at_choice) < 3:
>         this_month = next(month_cycle)
>         if this_month >= month_choice:
>             three_months_starting_at_choice.append(this_month)

Sorry, I now realise that won't do what you want; the wrap around from
12 to 1 will cause ‘this_month >= month_choice’ to be false.

Well, I won't correct it; maybe this is a useful exercise. Do you have a
way to fix that so it will work?

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