In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>kj wrote: >> Is there a special pythonic idiom for iterating over a list (or >> tuple) two elements at a time? >> >> I mean, other than >> >> for i in range(0, len(a), 2): >> frobnicate(a[i], a[i+1]) >There have been requests to add a grouper function to itertools, but its >author has resisted because there are at least three things one might do >with the short remainder group left over when the group size does not >evenly divide the sequence size: drop it, return it, or fill it to the >requested groupsize with a dummy value and then return it. Why not make this choice a third argument to the grouper function? Kynn -- NOTE: In my address everything before the first period is backwards; and the last period, and everything after it, should be discarded. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
