Alex Martelli wrote: > 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 Are there generally accepted guidelines on what is appropriate for the builtin namespace?
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