Chris Angelico writes: > And yeah, the import is an option, but if I'm trying to explain stuff > to people, it's usually easier to grab a genexp (full flexibility, but > the complexity) than to play around with importing. When the function > you want exists and returns true for the things you want, filter() has > a big win; for any other situation, it's not worth reaching to > itertools for a specific solution when the generic one will cover this > and every other case.
True. Filtering is so simple. The big win for me has been itertools.groupby. The other stuff I mostly play with for amusement. But hey, nothing frivolous in amusement! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
