Re: [boost] [python] can I stop iteration without exception being thrown?

From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-10 23:29:01

Stefan Seefeld <seefeld <at> sympatico.ca> writes:

> 
> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> A 'StopIteration' exception is the mechanism by which Python terminates 
> an iteration. This exception is certainly not ignored. It is simply 
> translated and handed over to the Python runtime. I'm not sure I 

Kinda against the rules for good programming

> understand how that gets into the way of debugging.

VS has nice feature I like to use th at allows to catch exceptions in the point
of inception. If I enable it these StopIteration exceptions start to creep up
and  make debugging impossible.

> However, you don't need to use iterators to traverse a container. Simply 
> fetching a container's size and then use the usual operator[] works 
> fine, too (though it might well be slower).

python code is written using regular for construct

Gennadiy