[Python-Dev] Conditional For Statements (original) (raw)

Eli Courtwright eli at courtwright.org
Mon May 19 03:57:24 CEST 2008

First, the best list on which to discuss this would be Python-Ideas not Python-Dev.

Second, this was brought up there a few months ago, although not much discussion ensued: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2008-March/001407.html

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Ryan Hitchman <hitchmanr at gmail.com> wrote:

I'd like to propose an addition to the for statement's syntax:

for {variable} in {iterable} if {condition}: {block} which is equivalent to for {variable} in {iterable}: if not {condition}: continue {block} and for {variable} in filter(lambda: {condition}, iterable): {block} This would make the syntax closer to that of generators, which have 'for variable in iterable if condition', and would improve code clarity by increased brevity and not negating boolean expressions. Following are examples of current code with what the new code would be, taken from the Python 3.0a5 tarball. Demo/tkinter/guido/ss1.py:163: for (x, y), cell in self.cells.items(): if x <= 0 or y <= 0:_ _continue_ _for (x, y), cell in self.cells.items() if x > 0 and y > 0: Lib/encodings/init.py:91: for modname in modnames: if not modname or '.' in modname: continue for modname in modnames if modname and '.' not in modname: Lib/idlelib/AutoExpand.py:70: for w in wafter: if dict.get(w): continue for w in wafter if w not in dict: Lib/Cookie.py:483: for K,V in items: if V == "": continue if K not in attrs: continue for K,V in items if V != "" and K not in attrs: Lib/hashlib.py:108: for opensslFuncName in filter(lambda n: n.startswith('openssl'), dir(hashlib)): for opensslFuncName in dir(hashlib) if opensslFuncName.startswith('openssl'): There are many more examples of this in the standard library, and likely even more in production code. I am not familiar with LL(1) parsing, so this may impossible under that constraint.

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