"Alex Martelli" wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FP functions like dropwhile/takewhile etc. > > No way -- the itertools module is and remains a PRECIOUS resource. > If you want an iterator rather than a list, itertools.ifilter is quite > appropriate here.
What about the future of itertools in python 3K ? IIRC, several functions and methods that currently return lists are going to return iterators. Could this imply that itertools.(imap/ifilter/izip) will take the place of map/filter/zip as builtins ? George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
