I was just working with a generator for a tree that I wanted to skip
the first result (root node.)
And it occurs to me, why do we need to do:
import sys
from itertools import islice
my_iter = islice(my_iter, 1, sys.maxint)
When we could simply add slice operations to generators?
for x in my_iter[1:]:
pass
The way I figure it, only if there is no __getitem__ defined, and the
object has an __iter__ (i.e. not a list, but a iter(list) would be
ok), then there should be a default __getitem__ that is really just
islice, with similar limitations (no negative indices.)
The idea might need a bit of polish, but fundamentally it seems like
it could make it easier to deal with slicing generators?
At the least, stop=sys.maxint, step=1, and islice needs to accept
kwargs. So you could do islice(my_iter, start=1), that's an oversight
imho.
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