Last iteration?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Florian Lindner wrote:

> Hello,
> can I determine somehow if the iteration on a list of values is the last
> iteration?
> 
> Example:
> 
> for i in [1, 2, 3]:
>    if last_iteration:
>       print i*i
>    else:
>       print i
> 
> that would print
> 
> 1
> 2
> 9
> 
> 
> Can this be acomplished somehow?

 def last_iter(iterable):
    it = iter(iterable)
    buffer = [it.next()]
    for i in it:
        buffer.append(i)
        old, buffer = buffer[0], buffer[1:]
        yield False, old
    yield True, buffer[0]
        
      

for last, i in last_iter(xrange(4)):
   if last:
       print i*i
   else:
       print i



Diez