[Python-Dev] for loop with if filter (original) (raw)

Tristan Seligmann mithrandi-python-dev at mithrandi.za.net
Sat Nov 17 02:31:51 CET 2007


"Gustavo Carneiro" <gjcarneiro at gmail.com> wrote in message news:a467ca4f0711160617p11564c05q8b2c59e87981c028 at mail.gmail.com... |I am finding myself often doing for loops over a subset of a list, like: | | for r in results: | if r.numNodes != numNodes: | continue | # do something with r Why write it backwards? for r in results: if r.numNodes == numNodes # do something with r is the direct parallel with the below code.

The extra level of indentation is awkward.

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