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> Hi to all I have a question about the for statement of python. I have the
> following piece of code where cachefilesSet is a set that contains the
> names of 1398 html files cached on my hard disk
>
> [snipped code]
>
> this code stops at the 473th file instead of reaching 1398
>
> however I changed the for and substituted it with a while in this way
>
> while cachefilesSet:
> fn = cachefilesSet.pop()
> .......
> .......
>
> the while loop reaches the 1398th file and is some 3-4 times faster than
> the for loop
>
> How is this possible?
Good question. ``for`` loops are of course reliable. Can you give a
short self contained example that shows the behavior?
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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