On Aug 20, 7:56 pm, MRAB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 20, 12:11 am, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > or, perhaps, for completeness/paranoia/whatever: > > > it = iter(iterable) > > try: > > headings = it.next() # < 2.5 > > except StopIteration: > > # code to handle empty <iterable> > > for item etc etc > > I think it needs to be: > > it = iter(iterable) > try: > headings = it.next() # < 2.5 > except StopIteration: > # code to handle empty <iterable> > else: > for item etc etc > > because you don't want to iterate over the remainder if it has already > stopped yielding! :-)
If it has stopped yielding, the remainder is nothing/null/empty, isn't it? In any case "code to handle empty <iterable>" is likely to end with a raise or return statement. Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
