[Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4) (original) (raw)

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Mon Jan 27 05:28:09 CET 2014


On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Vajrasky Kok <sky.kok at speaklikeaking.com>wrote:

What about this alternative? Makes -1 consistently mean unlimited repetition and other negative numbers consistently mean zero repetitions

-1

I think this idea was already rejected on the bug tracker. It will be very surprising if list(repeat(x, n)) would be different from [x] * n for integer n. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20140126/6d591b5b/attachment.html>



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