On 10/21/2012 9:19 PM, Ian Foote wrote:
On 22/10/12 09:03, Emile van Sebille wrote:
So, as OP's a self confessed newbie asking about slicing, why provide an
example requiring knowledge of tee, enumerate, next and izip?
Because not only the newbie will read the thread? I for one was
interested to see all the different possible approaches, and their
upsides and downsides.
Fair -- I get concerned that newcomers are faced with a much higher cost
of entry when answers to their apparently simple problems require
knowledge of specific functions in specific library modules to solve.
This presents a very high bar as my quick local test (help(); modules)
shows 398 modules!
In this case the only requirement should have been a quick pass through
the tutorial which should be enough to solve most problems.
Emile
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