[Python-Dev] itertools additions: one(), single_valued() (original) (raw)

Boris Borcic bborcic at gmail.com
Tue May 27 12:13:41 CEST 2008

Andreas Klöckner wrote:

On Montag 26 Mai 2008, Boris Borcic wrote: (...)

[mytarget] = iterable [mytarget] = set(iterable) the error messages seem also OK. True, thanks for pointing this out. :) I guess the only places where my functions are useful are a) if you don't want the intermediate result in a variable

On the near side to ugly, one could attempt the expression equivalents:

(lambda x:x)(*iterable) (lambda x:x)(*set(iterable))

or b) if you can't stomach the storage for the set.

Yeah, I guess it deserves study.

Cheers, BB

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