Call to
next()
should be wrapped in try-except
681 custom_metric_usage = metric_usage[customer.customer_name]
682 for unique_tup, d in custom_metric_usage.items():
683 i = iter(unique_tup)
684 _ = next(i) # i.next() in older versions 685 groupby_vals = list(i)
686 usage = list(d.values())[0]
687 unique_tup_dict = {
Description
Calls to next()
should be inside try-except
block.
When the iterator is exhausted, StopIteration
exception is raised. When used inside a generator, this can cause unexpected behavior. If not handled, it will propagate out of the generator causing termination. PEP-479 has been accepted to fix this problem. It will modify the behavior of StopIteration
in generators.
Each call to next()
should be wrapped in a try-except
block to explicitly handle StopIteration
exceptions.
Bad practice
def get_team_structure(team):
for team in class:
students = iter(team)
# StopIteration exception will be raised if team doesn't have members.
leader = next(students)
members = [m for m in students]
yield leader, members
def print_teams(teams):
for leader, members in get_team_structure(teams):
print("Leader: "leader)
for member in members:
print(member)
Recommended:
def get_team_structure(team):
for team in class:
# StopIteration exception will be raised if team has no members.
students = iter(team)
# Added `try` block, to guard against the exception
try:
leader = next(students)
except StopIteration:
# team has no members, skip it
continue
members = [m for m in students]
yield leader, members
def print_teams(teams):
for leader, members in get_team_structure(teams):
print("Leader: "leader)
for member in members:
print(member)
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