[Tutor] Iterating through a list of strings

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Mon May 3 12:21:37 CEST 2010


On Mon, 3 May 2010 05:35:52 pm Andre Engels wrote:

> Don't change the list that you are iterating over. As you have found,
> it leads to (to most) unexpected results. 

Or if you absolutely have to change the list in place, iterate over it 
*backwards* (starting at the end, and moving towards the beginning), so 
that the changes only happen in the part of the list you've already 
seen.



-- 
Steven D'Aprano


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