Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> added the comment: All implementations relying on zip or zip_longest breaks with infinite iterable (e.g. itertools.count()).
And it is not impossible to define a clean, flexible, and familiar API which will be similar to open()'s mode or unicode error mode. The modes would be 'error' (default), 'pad', 'truncate', and 'partial' (maybe should suggest a better name than 'partial') > There is an issue with having too many itertools. > The module taken as a whole becomes more > difficult to use as new tools are added. It should also be weighed that a lot of people are expecting for this kind of function in itertools. I think there are other functions in itertools that have more questionable value than groupers, such as starmap. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6021> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
