Jonathan Fine writes: > Here's a baby example - searching in a nested loop. Suppose we're > looking for the word 'apple' in a collection of books. Once we've > found it, we stop.
While I was writing a reply, several people replied with very similar comments, so I won't repeat them. But these two examples are so obnoxious I had to post them: >>> for page in (page for book in books for page in book if 'a' in page): ... break ... >>> page 'abc' >>> [page for book in books for page in book if 'a' in page][0] 'abc' >>> _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/UC5DV2KLXZTRXYBRCAWB7PFODBVNIZDK/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
