On 11/10/12 08:49, eryksun wrote:
Also, generally avoid mutating a list while iterating over it.
listiterator is just incrementing an index, so modifying the size of
the list can produce nonsense (e.g. if you remove the current item,
the next item will be skipped). Instead, create an empty list
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Ed Owens wrote:
>
> import string
Why are you importing "string"? Most string functions one would need
are methods of str/unicode. Sometimes "string" is still required,
however.
> def add_element(items, point):
> items = items[:point+1][:] + [['new']] + items
On 10/10/2012 03:52 PM, Ed Owens wrote:
> I'm trying to iterate over a list of elements, and make changes to the list
> in front of the element I'm currently working with. I can update the list,
> but the 'for' doesn't see the new element. Here's the code:
>
> import string
>
> def add_element(
On 10/10/2012 20:52, Ed Owens wrote:
I'm trying to iterate over a list of elements, and make changes to the list
in front of the element I'm currently working with. I can update the list,
but the 'for' doesn't see the new element. Here's the code:
import string
def add_element(items, point)
I'm trying to iterate over a list of elements, and make changes to the list
in front of the element I'm currently working with. I can update the list,
but the 'for' doesn't see the new element. Here's the code:
import string
def add_element(items, point):
items = items[:point+1][:] + [['n