On Nov 13, 2007 3:43 PM, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 15:12 +0100, BJörn Lindqvist wrote: > > L = somelist > > > > idx = 0 > > while True: > > item = L[idx] > > # Do something with item > > idx = (idx + 1) % len(L) > For begin=0 and step=1, itertools.cycle does exactly that. For arbitrary > offsets or different steps, you'd have to combine cycle with islice.
*slap forehead* Figures.. I actually read the itertools.cycle documentation but I didn't realize that it was (almost) equivalent to my code. Thanks for that. -- mvh Björn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
