bool (iterator)

[Chirayu Krishnappa]

Thanx!!! It works like a charm and its as elegant as can be.

(I'd skimmed through the familiar looking sections of the tutorial and had 
missed this thing.)

At 10:29 AM 8/5/02 +0200, you wrote:
>Chirayu <thephoenix235 at gmx.net> writes:
>
> > Is there a way for me to check if an iterator has "run out". I was
> > hoping bool (iterator) would help but it always returns true.
>
>That is what the else clause of a for loop is good for: It will be
>only executed if the for loop ran to completion.
>
> > iterObj = iter (obj)
> > while 1:
> >     for i in iterObj:
> >        process i
> >        break based on some condition
> >     # continue until we've exhausted the iterator
> >     if bool (iterObj)==0: break
>
>You can write this as
>
>iterObj = iter (obj)
>while 1:
>     for i in iterObj:
>        process i
>        break based on some condition
>     else:
>        # break out of while loop if the iterator is exhausted
>        break
>
>HTH,
>Martin