Nick Mellor <thebalance...@gmail.com> writes: > I came across itertools.dropwhile only today, then shortly afterwards > found Raymond Hettinger wondering, in 2007, whether to drop [sic] > dropwhile and takewhile from the itertools module.... > Almost nobody else of the 18 respondents seemed to be using them.
What? I'm amazed by that. I didn't bother reading the old thread, but I use those functions fairly frequently. I just used takewhile the other day, processing a timestamped log file where I wanted to look at certain clusters of events. I won't post the actual code here, but takewhile was a handy way to pull out intervals of interest after an event was seen. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
