[Python-Dev] Single- vs. Multi-pass iterability

[Greg Ewing]

"Delaney, Timothy" <tdelaney@avaya.com>:

> for each person in the queue:
>    service the person

If you actually wrote it that way in Python, it
would probably be a bug. It would be better written:

  while there is someone at the head of the queue:
    service that person

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