[Tutor] List index usage: is there a more pythonesque way?

[C M Caine]

That's the first I've read of iterating through dictionaries, I'd
assumed it was impossible because they're unordered. Your explanation
for defining your own iterables is much easier to understand than the
one I read before as well.

Thanks again.

2010/4/19 spir ☣ <denis.spir at gmail.com>:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:37:11 +0100
> C M Caine <cmcaine at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> That's two new things I've learnt. I didn't realise that for loops
>> could be used like that (with more than one... key?).
>
> Consider considering things differently: a for loop always iterates over items of a collection you indicate:
>
> l = [1,2,3]
> # item is list item             (implicit, it could be written items(l) or l.items())
> for n in l: print n,
> # item is (index,item) pair
> for (i,n) in enumerate(l): print (i,n),
> print
>
> d = {'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3}
> # item is dict key              (implicit, it could be written d.keys())
> for k in d: print k,
> # item is dict value
> for v in d.values(): print v,
> # item is (key,value) pair
> for (k,v) in d.items(): print (k,v),
> print
>
> (In the last case "items()" is maybe a bit confusing.)
>
> Python lets you construct your own iterators on custom collections to iterate in a different way:
> class NestedList(list):
>        def __iter__(self):
>                ll = list.__iter__(self)
>                for l in ll:
>                        for item in l:
>                                yield item
> ll = NestedList([[1,2,3], [9,8]])
> for n in ll: print n,
>
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