New submission from TitanSnow <tttnns1...@gmail.com>:
``islice()`` does not support negative values for start or stop,
which does not matter for plain iterators.
However, for some cases, we have a sized iterable object
which is not subscriptable, using ``islice()`` makes
code ugly::
d = OrderedDict()
for i in range(10): d[i] = i
dv = d.keys()
# dv is a KeysView which is a sized iterable
# now I wanna get a slice of dv which does not contain the last element
islice(dv, len(dv) - 1)
As it shows, I have to use ``len(dv)`` to get its length.
For sized iterable objects, ``islice()`` could
support negative values for start or stop.
In this way, the above code can be written like this::
islice(dv, -1)
For iterable objects which is not sized,
it could still be not supported::
islice(iter(range(10)), -1)
raises a ValueError as its original behavior.
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components: Library (Lib)
files: islice.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 313517
nosy: tttnns
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Make itertools.islice supports negative values for start and stop
arguments for sized iterable object
type: enhancement
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file47475/islice.patch
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