On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Frank Millman <fr...@chagford.com> wrote: > Hi all > > I have used itertools.groupby before, and I love it. I used it to process a > csv file and 'break' on change of a particular field. It worked very well. > > Now I want to use it to process a database table. I can select the rows in > the desired sequence with no problem. However, I am using asyncio, so I am > reading the rows asynchronously. > > Before I spend hours trying to figure it out, can anyone confirm if this is > doable at all, or is groupby not designed for this.
Most of itertools is going to assume synchronous iterables. However, the docs give pure-Python equivalents for quite a few: https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.groupby You may be able to tweak that into an actual "itertools.agroupby" or "aitertools.groupby". ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
