[Tutor] Iterating through a list of strings

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On Mon, 03 May 2010 10:55:11 +0200
Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:

> Luke Paireepinart, 03.05.2010 10:27:
> > On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Stefan Behnel wrote:
> >>                 line = line.split('%', 1)[0]
> >
> > lines = [line[:line.index('%')] for line in ...
> 
> Agreed that
> 
>      line = line[:line.index('%')]
> 
> is slightly more readable than
> 
>      line = line.split('%', 1)[0]

But, to my eyes,
    endpos = line.index('%')
    line = line[:endpos]
is even more readable ;-)

Denis
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