[Tutor] updating step size while in loop

[Alan Gauld]

On 09/07/12 22:59, Abhishek Pratap wrote:
>
> I want to know whether it is possible for dynamically update the step
> size in xrange  or someother slick way.
>
> Here is what I am trying to do, if during a loop I find the x in list
> I want to skip next #n iterations.

You could use the next() method of the iterator. But you need to make 
the iterator explicit:

it = iter(xrange(start, stop,step))
for n in it:
     if n in mylist:
        for i in range(jump_size):
             it.next()


HTH
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