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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08🔞52 -0400

Will do. I think the resistance to moving the functionals will be fierce.

You might try to deprecate reduce() though. It's useless.

Divmod probably has very few instances in real code.

Not so sure. It's very handy in converting numbers to weird-radix or mixed-radix systems. E.g. it's a natural for converting posix timestamps to broken-out times, and e.g. /nondist/sandbox/datetime/datetime.py is full of it.

I think pow would need to be left in (as the ** that calls it), but the function itself may be used only rarely.

Unfortunately the function is needed as the API to 3-arg pow() -- which doesn't easily fit in the math library since it's not a floating point thing.

Does anyone know of an automated what that I can scan a large body of published Python code. I would want some real usage statistics in a PEP but hate pulling modules down one at a time and grepping them.

You can write something using urllib that pulls things down, and I recommend using the tokenizer module to do the parsing -- much slower than grep, but doesn't get confused by comments etc. See Tools/scripts/finddiv.py for an example.

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