On 9/7/2011 8:24 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I don't think this question is meaningful. There are basically two
fundamental types of iterables, sequences and iterators.
And non-sequence iterables like set and dict.
Sequences have random access and a length, so if the "start" and "end" of
the sequence is important to you, just use indexing:
beginning = sequence[0]
end = sequence[-1]
for i, x in enumerate(sequence):
if i == 0: print("at the beginning")
elif i == len(sequence)-1: print("at the end")
print(x)
And finite non-sequences can be turned into sequences with list(iterable).
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