R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment:
Presumably because conceptually an 'initial value' would be like adding an additional element on to the front of the iterable being passed as an argument, and itertools is all about operating on iterables. I'm not saying such an argument could not be added, but the API is cleaner without it. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray versions: +Python 3.8 -Python 3.5 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue34659> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
