Muhammad Alkarouri wrote: > The next function performs much better. It is also much more direct > for the purposes of consume and much more understandable (at least for > me) as it doesn't require a specialized data structure which is > subsequently not used as such. > I am thus inclined to report it as a python documentation enhancement > (bug) request. Any comments?
I would support that as a the deque(..., maxlen=0) trick is a bit too clever for my taste. Peter PS: Remember to include the bug fix for n=0 if you proceed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
