On 4 September 2010 19:14, Bill Allen <walle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Say I have and iterable called some_stuff which is thousands of items in
> length and I am looping thru it as such:
>
> for x in some_stuff
> etc...
>
> However, what if I want only to iterate through only the first ten items of
> some_stuff, for testing purposes. Is there a concise way of specifying that
> in the for statement line?
You can use a slice or use a counter.
slice,
for x in some_stuff[:10]:
etc
counter,
count = 0
for x in some_stuff:
if x <= 10:
print x
else:
break
greets
Sander
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