On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:44:05 PM UTC+3, Neatu Ovidiu wrote: > On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:12:53 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Neatu Ovidiu <neat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > But what's your use case? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Does it occur often enough that you cannot afford a two-liner like > > > > > > I think uses cases are plenty. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The possible cases I can think of would be better served with list > > comprehensions (what you seem to want is to create lists based on other > > lists) - but maybe I'm missing something. Could we have one example? > > > > > > > > > > > > N. > > > > This can be useful for doing all kinds of basic stuff. For example if you > wanted to take 4 items of a list at at a time, do something with them and > then update the list. > > > > jobs = ['job1', 'job2', 'job3', 'job4', 'job5', 'job6', 'job7', 'job8', > 'job9', 'job10'] > > while jobs: > > print(jobs.pop_slice(0,4)) > > > > should output > > > > 'job1', 'job2', 'job3', 'job4' > > 'job5', 'job6', 'job7', 'job8' > > 'job9', 'job10'
The idea "popped" in my mind while thinking about this question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18121416/right-split-a-string-into-groups-of-3/18122084 I founded the list comprehensions solutions kind of cumbersome and thought that there should be a simple way to do this kind of stuff. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
