On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:46 AM Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote:

> I find it remarkable how people on this
> list who often argue "just put it on PyPI" as if that didn't condemn the
> proposal to die are now arguing that importing from itertools is an
> undue burden.
>

are you sure it's the SAME people? I don't think ever indicated the "just
put it PyPi" waas not a MAOJOR impediment to adoption. And I wouldn't say
"undue burden" either, but a burden -- so not always the best place to put
things ...

> I believe boolean mode switches are usually a bad design

>
> This proposed mode is not a composable flag like reverse or closefd. If
> we treat it as a flag instead of a mode, then we either rule out future
> enhancements to zip (they *must* go into new functions), or commit to
> piling bool flag upon bool flag even though most of the combinations
> will be an error.
>

I'm still confused why the ternary flag (mode) idea never comes up in these
arguments -- I know I like that the best. But yeah, I can except that it's
dead.

-CHB

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