Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > I've never needed such a split function, and I don't like the name, and > the functionality isn't general enough. I'd prefer something which splits > the input sequence into as many sublists as necessary, according to the > output of the key function. Something like itertools.groupby(), except it > runs through the entire sequence and collates all the elements with > identical keys.
No really, groupby makes iterators, not lists, and it you have to develop quite a delicate sense of when you can use it without having bugs caused by the different iterators it makes getting advanced at the wrong times. The concept of a split function that actually works on lists is useful. I'm neutral about whether it's worth having a C version in the stdlib. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
