[Tutor] [OT] Re: removing consecutive duplicates from list

[Peter Otten]

On 21/04/2021 11:56, dn via Tutor wrote:
> On 21/04/2021 19.39, Peter Otten wrote:

>>     it = iter(items)
>>     try:
>>         prev = next(it)
>>     except StopIteration: I hate you, Chris A. ;)
>>         return
>>     yield prev

> (not sure why we're beating-up Chris though)

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0479/

Prior to that you could write the above without the try...except.