Chris Rebert wrote: > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 1:40 AM, 一首诗 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Today I wrote some code like this: >> > > Build a new list as you go, then overwrite the old list with it. > > unfinished = [] > >> for m in self.messages: >> if not m.finished: > unfinished.append(m) >> continue >> >> #process the message >> > > Remove the following code > >> fini = [m for m in self.messages if m.finished] >> for m in fini: >> self.messages.remove(m) > > self.messages[:] = unfinished
Just self.messages = unfinished if also OK unless you have multiple references to the self.messages list. > This way you aren't calling .remove() multiple times and only iterate > through the list once. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
