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

George Sakkis gsakkis at rutgers.edu
Fri Apr 13 22:00:39 CEST 2007

On 4/13/07, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

"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.

I agree, that's why I don't suggest a new builtin but adding features to an existing one. In fact, this can even reduce the builtins since map(), zip() and enumerate() could be removed from the builtin namespace.

George

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