> But let's change it to what I think you were thinking of:
>
> ###
> def lstrip(string, chars):
> scratchspace = list(string) ## get a mutable list of characters
> for x in scratchspace:
> if x in chars:
> scratchspace[i] = ''
> return ''.join(scratchspace)
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote:
> >for x in string:
> >if x in chars:
> >string[i] = ''
>
> I just have a hangover from other languages, but I really wanted to know
> how Python handles iteration over a variable which is being changed
> within the loop itse
