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		nostoc 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Advanced Python Features Instead of catching the `StopIteration` exception, you can simply provide a default case to `next` : `next((c for c in candidates if predicate(c)), default)`

zahlman 8 months ago [–]

Indeed. I was thinking of ways to generalize for the case where a default isn't desired, then decided against introducing that complexity in the example, then forgot that I could re-simplify further.

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