[Python-ideas] iter() on steroids (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Apr 13 20:33:13 CEST 2007

"George Sakkis" <george.sakkis at gmail.com> wrote in message news:91ad5bf80704130849y5117321ev475acf240b4f086f at mail.gmail.com... | In some sense it's a chicken-and-egg problem. My guess is that one | reason itertools are not used as much as they could/should is that | they are "hidden away" in a module, which makes one think it twice | before importing it (let alone newbies that don't even know its | existence). As a single data point, I'm a big fan itertools and still | I'm often lazy to import it to use, say izip() only once; I just go | with zip() instead.

I personally think there are too many builtins. So I would like some pushed to modules, which means more import statements. Oh, dear.

If you have trouble writing 'from itertools import izip' or 'import itertools as it', then I guess it is hard to promote a module. Nonetheless, I think perhaps you should write your own based on iter and itertools. And put it up on PyPI if it works at least for you.

Terry Jan Reedy

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