On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Fábio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> for X in (i for i in open('largefile') if is_part_of_header(i)):
>
> The above code would be wasting time on IO and processing. It would load
> another line and calculate the condition for every line of the large file
> and I just wanted to loop over the few header lines.
>
> itertools.takewhile and fwhile/for..while actually stops the loop when the
> condition is not meant, while your example keeps checking the condition
> until the end of file, even though it is a generator expression.
>
Ah yes, of course, my bad.
It's still possible by raising a StopIteration within the condition
function:
def is_part_of_header(x):
if header_condition:
return True
else:
raise StopIteration
But yes, by this point any clarity of the generator expression approach
comes with the cost of more explicit setup of the breaking condition.
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