我们可以用for-else来实现

cities = [
  'Jakarta',
  'Surabaya',
  'Semarang'
]

for city in cities[:-1]:
  print(city)
else:
  print(' '.join(cities[-1].upper()))

输出:

Jakarta
Surabaya
S E M A R A N G

这个想法是我们只使用for-else循环直到n-1索引，然后在for耗尽后，我们使用[-1]直接访问最后一个索引。

大多数情况下，让第一次迭代成为特殊情况比最后一次迭代更容易(也更便宜):

first = True
for data in data_list:
    if first:
        first = False
    else:
        between_items()

    item()

这将适用于任何迭代对象，即使是那些没有len()的迭代对象:

file = open('/path/to/file')
for line in file:
    process_line(line)

    # No way of telling if this is the last line!

除此之外，我不认为有更好的解决方案，因为这取决于你想要做什么。例如，如果您正在从列表中构建字符串，那么使用str.join()自然比使用“带有特殊情况”的For循环更好。

使用相同的原理，但更紧凑:

for i, line in enumerate(data_list):
    if i > 0:
        between_items()
    item()

看起来很眼熟，不是吗?：）

对于@ofko，以及其他真正需要找出不带len()的可迭代对象的当前值是否为最后一个值的人，你需要向前看:

def lookahead(iterable):
    """Pass through all values from the given iterable, augmented by the
    information if there are more values to come after the current one
    (True), or if it is the last value (False).
    """
    # Get an iterator and pull the first value.
    it = iter(iterable)
    last = next(it)
    # Run the iterator to exhaustion (starting from the second value).
    for val in it:
        # Report the *previous* value (more to come).
        yield last, True
        last = val
    # Report the last value.
    yield last, False

然后你可以这样使用它:

>>> for i, has_more in lookahead(range(3)):
...     print(i, has_more)
0 True
1 True
2 False

我发现在循环表达式之前定义循环值很方便。对于这个方框示例，匹配循环中的值，或者其他可能需要它的地方。

numberofboxes = 1411

for j in range(1,numberofboxes):
    if j != numberofboxes - 1:
        print ("},")
    else:
        print("}")

这类似于Ants Aasma的方法，但没有使用itertools模块。它也是一个滞后迭代器，它可以提前查找迭代器流中的单个元素:

def last_iter(it):
    # Ensure it's an iterator and get the first field
    it = iter(it)
    prev = next(it)
    for item in it:
        # Lag by one item so I know I'm not at the end
        yield 0, prev
        prev = item
    # Last item
    yield 1, prev

def test(data):
    result = list(last_iter(data))
    if not result:
        return
    if len(result) > 1:
        assert set(x[0] for x in result[:-1]) == set([0]), result
    assert result[-1][0] == 1

test([])
test([1])
test([1, 2])
test(range(5))
test(xrange(4))

for is_last, item in last_iter("Hi!"):
    print is_last, item

有多种方法。切片是最快的。再添加一个使用.index()方法的:

>>> l1 = [1,5,2,3,5,1,7,43]                                                 
>>> [i for i in l1 if l1.index(i)+1==len(l1)]                               
[43]

假设input是一个迭代器，下面是使用itertools中的tee和izip的方法:

from itertools import tee, izip
items, between = tee(input_iterator, 2)  # Input must be an iterator.
first = items.next()
do_to_every_item(first)  # All "do to every" operations done to first item go here.
for i, b in izip(items, between):
    do_between_items(b)  # All "between" operations go here.
    do_to_every_item(i)  # All "do to every" operations go here.

演示:

>>> def do_every(x): print "E", x
...
>>> def do_between(x): print "B", x
...
>>> test_input = iter(range(5))
>>>
>>> from itertools import tee, izip
>>>
>>> items, between = tee(test_input, 2)
>>> first = items.next()
>>> do_every(first)
E 0
>>> for i,b in izip(items, between):
...     do_between(b)
...     do_every(i)
...
B 0
E 1
B 1
E 2
B 2
E 3
B 3
E 4
>>>