[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any chance of itertools.count() ever becoming one of the > built-in functions?
That's unlikely. The goal is to have fewer builtins rather than more. Utility and frequency are not the only considerations; otherwise glob.glob, sys.stderr, print.pprint, copy.copy, and many others would also be candidates. > It's a wonderful little function and I find myself > importing it in every module I write. I'm glad you find it so useful. Raymond -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list