[Python-ideas] for/else syntax

[Gerald Britton]

> Footnotes:
> [1]  StopIteration can, but I thought raising StopIteration in user
> code is considered quite bad form.


StopIteration once put forward on this very list as a way to stop a
generator. e.g.

def stop():
  raise StopIteration

gen = (x in something if <x meets some condition> or stop() )

Toy example:

Say you want the squares of all natural numbers n such that n <= j.
Here's one simple way using the stop function above:

from itertools import count

squares = (n**2 for n in count() if n <= j or stop() )

Without the "or stop()" the generator goes into an infinite loop when
n exceeds 10.  Of course you can do this toy example other ways, this
is just an illustration.


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Gerald Britton