On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Miki Tebeka <miki.teb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I guess enumerate is the best way to check for first argument. Note that if
> someone passes you the iterator as argument you have now way of checking if
> the consumed items from it.
>
> istail can be implemented using itertools.chain, see
> https://gist.github.com/1202260
For the archives, if Gist ever goes down:
from itertools import chain
def istail(it):
'''Check if iterator has one more element. Return True/False and
iterator.'''
try:
i = next(it)
except StopIteration:
return False, it
try:
j = next(it)
return False, chain([i, j], it)
except StopIteration:
return True, chain([i], it)
t, it = istail(iter([]))
print t, list(it)
t, it = istail(iter([1]))
print t, list(it)
t, it = istail(iter([1, 2]))
print t, list(it)
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