Bill Allen wrote:
Thanks to everyone who replied. Some of the methods presented where some I
had thought of, others were new to me. Particularly, I did not realize I
could apply a slice to a list. The for x in some_stuff[:value] form worked
very well for my purposes. I can also see I need to look into the itertools
module and see what goodies are to be found there.
-Bill
You're certainly welcome.
One advantage of itertools islice() is that it works on a generator (for
example), not just on a list, tuple, string,etc.. For example, if you
have a generator that generates all prime numbers, there's no way to
turn that into a list, because it would be infinite in size. Thus the
usual [:10] syntax won't work on it. But islice() will.
DaveA
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