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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

One benefit of using dropwhile is that (with a bit of practice) it can actually be easier to read than a for loop. All for loops look similar. You need to read the for loop line by line to understand what it really do.

With dropwhile (or map, filter and reduce), it’s immediately obvious it will drop all elements until a certain condition turns false.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What the hell is a drop

[–] kogasa 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Skip. As in, "drop the first 5 elements of this iterable." dropwhile is "drop each element until the given predicate is satisfied." It's really not that obscure, I dunno what the original commenter is on about

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I'm not even a python dev, I knew what dropwhile did immediately from the name. Some people just don't want to learn anything new, ever.