I thought I read some where there these are intended to be dropped(or at least moved out of built-in) ?
George Sakkis wrote: > 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