Jeff Epler jepler at unpythonic.net
Wed Oct 22 16:46:26 EDT 2003

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Use 2.3's itertools:
    foo = [i for i in itertools.takewhile(lambda i: len(i) > 0, bar)]
or maybe
    foo = list(itertools.takewhile(len, bar)]
or even
    foo = itertools.takewhile(len, bar) # an iterable, not a list

Jeff

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