On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> This does 2 lookups per key, which you could avoid by making the code
> uglier (untested):
>
> sentinel = object()
> seq = (dct.get('Keyword%d'%i,sentinel) for i in count(1))
> lst = list(takewhile(lambda x: x != sentinel, seq))
If I understand this code correctly, that's creating generators,
right? It won't evaluate past the sentinel at all?
That might well be what I'm looking for. A bit ugly, but efficient and
compact. And I can bury some of the ugliness away.
Chris Angelico
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