skip next item in list

[ahlongxp]

list=('a','d','c','d')
for a in list:
if a=='a' :
#skip the letter affer 'a'

what am I supposed to do?

[Andre Engels]

2007/6/11, ahlongxp <ah******@gmail.com>:

list=('a','d','c','d')
for a in list:
if a=='a' :
#skip the letter affer 'a'

what am I supposed to do?

There might be better ways to do it, but I would do:

flag_last_a = False
for a in list:
if flag_last_a:
flag_last_a = False
continue
if a=='a':
flag_last_a = True
# Whatever is done when you don't skip

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[Diez B. Roggisch]

ahlongxp wrote:

list=('a','d','c','d')
for a in list:
if a=='a' :
#skip the letter affer 'a'

what am I supposed to do?

First - don't use list as name, as it is a builtins-name and shadowing is
likely to produce errors at some point.

list_iterator = iter(('a','d','c','d'))

for a in list_iterator:
if a == 'a':
list_iterator.next()
...

should do the trick.

Diez

[danmcleran]

On Jun 11, 8:49 am, ahlongxp <[e-mail]:

list=('a','d','c','d')
for a in list:
if a=='a' :
#skip the letter affer 'a'

what am I supposed to do?

You could do this with itertools.ifilter and an predicate (pred) for a
more OO solution. I've created 2 lists, the source list (l) and the
expected answer (ans). Make sure this is what you meant in your
problem statement:

import itertools

l = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'a', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'a', 'g', 'h']
ans = ['a', 'c', 'a', 'e', 'f', 'a', 'h']

class pred(object):
def __init__(self):
self.last = None

def __call__(self, arg):
result = None

if self.last == 'a':
result = False
else:
result = True

self.last = arg

return result

i = itertools.ifilter(pred(), l)

result = list(i)

print result
print ans

assert result == ans

print 'done'

[Rafael Darder Calvo]

On 6/11/07, Andre Engels <an*********@gmail.comwrote:

2007/6/11, ahlongxp <ah******@gmail.com>:

list=('a','d','c','d')
for a in list:
if a=='a' :
#skip the letter affer 'a'

what am I supposed to do?

There might be better ways to do it, but I would do:

flag_last_a = False
for a in list:
if flag_last_a:
flag_last_a = False
continue
if a=='a':
flag_last_a = True
# Whatever is done when you don't skip

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ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
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another way:

def skip_after(l):
i = iter(l)
for x in i:
yield x
while x == 'a':
x = i.next()

depending on what to do in case of consecutive 'a's, change the
'while' for an 'if'
list(skip_after('spam aand eggs'))
['s', 'p', 'a', ' ', 'a', 'd', ' ', 'e', 'g', 'g', 's']

[Duncan Smith]

ahlongxp wrote:

list=('a','d','c','d')
for a in list:
if a=='a' :
#skip the letter affer 'a'

what am I supposed to do?

Maybe,

>>it = iter(['a','d','c','d'])
for item in it:

print item
if item == 'a':
x = it.next()
a
c
d

>>>

The binding of a name to it.next() is unnecessary. It just prevents 'd'
being printed.

Duncan

[ahlongxp]

Thanks to all of you.
I think the next() trick is the one I'm looking for.

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