In many languages we can do something like:
for (int i = 0; i < value; i++)
{
if (condition)
{
i += 10;
}
}
How can I do the same in Python? The following (of course) does not work:
for i in xrange(value):
if condition:
i += 10
I could do something like this:
i = 0
while i < value:
if condition:
i += 10
i += 1
but I'm wondering if there is a more elegant (pythonic?) way of doing this in Python.
Use continue.
for i in xrange(value):
if condition:
continue
If you want to force your iterable to skip forwards, you must call .next().
>>> iterable = iter(xrange(100))
>>> for i in iterable:
... if i % 10 == 0:
... [iterable.next() for x in range(10)]
...
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
[21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30]
[41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50]
[61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70]
[81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90]
As you can see, this is disgusting.
.next() on your iterator the number of times you want to skip..next() in the code you posted?
Create the iterable before the loop.
Skip one by using next on the iterator
it = iter(xrange(value))
for i in it:
if condition:
i = next(it)
Skip many by using itertools or recipes based on ideas from itertools.
it = iter(xrange(value))
for i in it:
if x<5:
i = dropwhile(lambda x: x<5, it)
Take a read through the itertools page, it shows some very common uses of working with iterators.
itertools islice
it = islice(xrange(value), 10)
for i in it:
...do stuff with i...
TypeError: xrange object is not an iterator. I think it will require to specify: it = xrange(value).__iter__()It's a very old question, but I find the accepted answer is not totally stisfactory:
if ... / [next()...] sequence, the value of i hasn't changed. In your first example, it has.Using a modified version of consume in itertools recipes, you can write:
import itertools
def consume(it, n):
return next(itertools.islice(it, n-1, n), None)
it = iter(range(20))
for i in it:
print(i, end='->')
if i%4 == 0:
i = consume(it, 5)
print(i)
As written in the doctstring of consume, the iterator is consumed at C speed (didn't benchmark though). Output:
0->5
6->6
7->7
8->13
14->14
15->15
16->None
With a minor modification, one can get 21 instead of None, but I think this isnot a good idea because this code does work with any iterable (otherwise one would prefer the while version):
import string
it = iter(string.ascii_lowercase) # a-z
for x in it:
print(x, end="->")
if x in set('aeiouy'):
x = consume(it, 2) # skip the two letters after the vowel
print(x)
Output:
a->c
d->d
e->g
h->h
i->k
l->l
m->m
n->n
o->q
r->r
s->s
t->t
u->w
x->x
y->None
n not in n-1 in consume()
>>> it = iter(range(10)) / >>> list(it) / [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] / >>> it = iter(range(10)) / >>> consume(it, 4) / 3 / >>> list(it) / [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Seems ok to me.Itertools has a recommended way to do this: https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/itertools.html#itertools-recipes
import collections
def tail(n, iterable):
"Return an iterator over the last n items"
# tail(3, 'ABCDEFG') --> E F G
return iter(collections.deque(iterable, maxlen=n))
Now you can do:
for i in tail(5, range(10)):
print(i)
to get
5
6
7
8
9
isplice(iter, N, None).)Easiest way is to use more_itertools.consume(). See https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.consume.
import more_itertools
x = iter(range(10))
# skip the next four items
more_itertools.consume(x, 4)
y = list(x)
print(y)
will result in
[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
This becomes super helpful if you are iterating through a file and need to skip a bunch of lines. Something like this:
with open("test.txt", "r") as file:
while line:= next(file):
# Look for "magic_word" and then skip 10 lines.
if "magic_word" in line:
more_itertools.consume(file, 10)
# do other stuff with line
I am hoping I am not answering this wrong... but this is the simplest way I have come across:
for x in range(0,10,2):
print x
output should be something like this:
0
2
4
6
8
The 2 in the range parameter's is the jump value
Does a generator function here is rebundant? Like this:
def filterRange(range, condition):
x = 0
while x < range:
x = (x+10) if condition(x) else (x + 1)
yield x
if __name__ == "__main__":
for i in filterRange(100, lambda x: x > 2):
print i
There are a few ways to create iterators, but the custom iterator class is the most extensible:
class skip_if: # skip_if(object) for python2
"""
iterates through iterable, calling skipper with each value
if skipper returns a positive integer, that many values are
skipped
"""
def __init__(self, iterable, skipper):
self.it = iter(iterable)
self.skip = skipper
def __iter__(self):
return self
def __next__(self): # def next(self): for python2
value = next(self.it)
for _ in range(self.skip(value)):
next(self.it, None)
return value
and in use:
>>> for i in skip_if(range(1,100), lambda n: 10 if not n%10 else 0):
... print(i, end=', ')
...
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50,
61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70,
81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90,
I think you have to use a while loop for this...for loop loops over an iterable..and you cannot skip next item like how you want to do it here
