On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:58:00 -0500, Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It's modelled after the way cmp treats lists - if a and b are lists, >> icmp(iter(a), iter(b)) should always be the same as cmp(a, b). >> >> Is this any good? Would it be any use? Should this be added to itertools? > > Whatever happens, please name it something other than icmp. When I read > "icmp", I think "Internet Control Message Protocol".
Me too, but I see that as an added bonus ;-). OTOH, if this is part of itertools or some other module, "itertools.cmp" would be a more logical name. (On the third hand, as someone else said, I don't see the use case for this.) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu \X/ snipabacken.dyndns.org> R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
