On Dec 30, 12:10 am, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm considering deprecating these two functions and would like some > feedback from the community or from people who have a background in > functional programming.
I am with Steven D'Aprano when he says that takewhile and dropwhile are clear enough. On the other hand, in my code base I have exactly zero occurrences of takewhile and dropwhile, even if I tend to use the itertools quite often. That should be telling. If my situations is common, that means that takewhile and dropwhile are useless in practice and should be deprecated. But I will wait for other respondents. It may just be that I never needed them. I presume you did scans of large code bases and you did not find occurrences of takewhile and dropwhile, right? Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
