[Python-Dev] Lockstep iteration - eureka! (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:15:10 +0200

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 04:01:18PM +0100, Just van Rossum wrote:

Features

It adds an optional clause to the 'for' statement:

for indexing in : ...

Implementation

Implementation should be trivial for anyone named Guido, Tim or Thomas.

Well, to justify that vote of confidence <0.4 wink> I wrote a quick hack that adds this to Python for loops. It can be found on SF, patch #101138. It's small, but it works. I'll iron out any bugs if there's enough positive feelings towards this kind of syntax change.

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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