[Python-Dev] Proposal for a new itertools function: iwindow (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sat May 27 12:59:59 CEST 2006

On Thu, May 25, 2006, Torsten Marek wrote:

Some open question remain: - should iwindow return lists or tuples? - what happens if the length of the iterable is smaller than the window size, and no padding is specified? Is this an error? Should the generator return no value at all or one window that is too small?

You should probably try this idea out on comp.lang.python; if there is approval, you'll probably need to write a PEP because of these issues. Note that my guess is that the complexity of the issues relative to the benefit means that BDFL will probably veto it.

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