George Sakkis <[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 ?
I think the builtin namespace shouldn't get too crowded. But what I think matters little -- what __GvR__ thinks is more important...!-) Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
