- putting arbitrary initialization code in <init>
Not sure what's "arbitrary", unless you mean unrelated to the iteration variable.
Yes, that.
I guess my archetype of the cute C for-loop is the idiom for pointer-list traversal:
struct foo {int data; struct foo *next;} *ptr, *head;
for (ptr = head; *ptr; ptr = ptr->next) do_something_with(ptr->data)
This is elegant. It separates the logic for list traversal from the operation on the list element.
And it rarely happens in Python, because sequences are rarely represented as linked lists.
Not the highest on my list of wants -- I'd sooner have ?: back. I submitted a patch for that once, and the discussion sort of died. Were you dead det against it, or should I revive this proposal?
Not dead set against something like it, but dead set against the ?: syntax because then : becomes too overloaded for the human reader, e.g.: if foo ? bar : bletch : spam = eggs If you want to revive this, I strongly suggest writing a PEP first before posting here. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)