skip next item in list

[Diez B. Roggisch]

ahlongxp wrote:

> list=('a','d','c','d')
> for a in list:
>     if a=='a' :
>         #skip the letter affer 'a'
> 
> what am I supposed to do?

First - don't use list as name, as it is a builtins-name and shadowing is
likely to produce errors at some point.

list_iterator = iter(('a','d','c','d'))

for a in list_iterator:
    if a == 'a':
       list_iterator.next()
    ...

should do the trick.



Diez