[ingve]

If you work with other languages in addition to Python, it's easy to fall back into old habits. You should internalize the content from these two excellent presentations:

Raymond Hettinger's "Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python":

http://pyvideo.org/video/1780/transforming-code-into-beautif...

(pyvideo.org has a lot of other great talks and presentations.)

Ned Batchelder's "Loop Like A Native":

http://nedbatchelder.com/text/iter.html

Python Module of the Week is also an excellent resource:

http://pymotw.com/2/

[jeffasinger]

Watching the video was worth it for realizing when you'd want the second argument of iter()