How to detect the last element in a for loop

[François Pinard]

[Tom Verbeure]

> > For a simple solution, how about:
> > 
> > for a in myList[:-1]:
> >      do_stuff(a)
> > special_stuff(myList[-1])

> No, I still want to do 'do_stuff' for the last element also. This may be, 
> say, 10 lines of code. Too much to duplicate it outside the loop, not 
> enough for a separate function...

I did not follow this thread, I may be missing something, but why not:

    for a in myList:
         do_stuff(a)
    special_stuff(a)

taking advantage on the fact that `a' keeps the last value it received?

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