iterating lists

[Roel Schroeven]

Op 2010-01-23 17:29, ceciliaseidel at gmx.de schreef:
> 
> 
> Arnaud Delobelle schrieb:
>> ceciliaseidel at gmx.de writes:
>>
>>> As you were talking about list.pop()...
>>>
>>> Is anyone able to reproduce the following and explain why this happens
>>> by chance? (Using 3.1.1)
>>>
>>> l1 = ["ready", "steady", "go"]
>>> l2 = ["one", "two", "tree"]
>>> l3 = ["lift off"]
>>>
>>> for w in l1:
> 
> Ouch... thanks Arnaud... The stable way would've been
> 
> for w in l1[:]: #use copy of l1 for iteration
> 	print(l1.pop()) #decomposite list

I would prefer:

while l1:
    print(l1.pop())

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Roel Schroeven