Raymond Hettinger added the comment: FYI, the CPython behavior matches the pure python implementation show in the docs:
Python 3.6.1 (v3.6.1:69c0db5050, Mar 21 2017, 01:21:04) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information. >>> class groupby: # [k for k, g in groupby('AAAABBBCCDAABBB')] --> A B C D A B # [list(g) for k, g in groupby('AAAABBBCCD')] --> AAAA BBB CC D def __init__(self, iterable, key=None): if key is None: key = lambda x: x self.keyfunc = key self.it = iter(iterable) self.tgtkey = self.currkey = self.currvalue = object() def __iter__(self): return self def __next__(self): while self.currkey == self.tgtkey: self.currvalue = next(self.it) # Exit on StopIteration self.currkey = self.keyfunc(self.currvalue) self.tgtkey = self.currkey return (self.currkey, self._grouper(self.tgtkey)) def _grouper(self, tgtkey): while self.currkey == tgtkey: yield self.currvalue try: self.currvalue = next(self.it) except StopIteration: return self.currkey = self.keyfunc(self.currvalue) >>> from operator import itemgetter >>> inputs = ((x > 5, x) for x in range(10)) >>> (_, a), (_, b) = groupby(inputs, key=itemgetter(0)) >>> print(list(a)) [] >>> print(list(b)) [(True, 9)] ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30346> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com