[Python-Dev] iterzip() (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Sun, 28 Apr 2002 21:59:57 -0400

[Raymond Hettinger]

... Will do. I think the resistance to moving the functionals will be fierce. Divmod probably has very few instances in real code. I think pow would need to be left in (as the ** that calls it), but the function itself may be used only rarely.

I suggest you don't slash your chances of success by expanding the scope beyond what you really want. Python is a pleasant language for integer number-crunching code, and some people (I happen to be one of them) have hundreds of instances of divmod and 3-argument pow() in their code (note that the latter cannot be spelled via **).

People have been asking for "something like" enumerate() for 10 years, and that's the right amount of time to test that it's really wanted . Contrarily, people have only been whining about input() for a couple of years (I use it all the time -- and now that you know that I do, I dare you to crack my home box as a result ). This thread is the first time I ever saw anyone complain about divmod(). The confusion about builin pow() vs math.pow vs ** is old but infrequent.

-1-on-gratuitous-fiddling-ly y'rs - tim