On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 at 09:39, Steve Jorgensen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I was using the reading of lines from a file as a contrived example. There 
> are many other possible cases such as de-structuring from iterator such as 
> `itertools.repeat()` with no `count` argument which will generate values 
> endlessly.

itertools.islice will (in effect) allow you to have a count argument
for any iterator.

Paul
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