On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > Interestingly, they seem to all have something to do with dictionary > > values() that are themselves iterable. > > I see. These are instances of a recurring general use case of > chain() as a one-level flattener. > > Will give consideration to changing the signature of chain() for Py3.0. > Besides the concat() variation using a single iterable input, another > alternative is the min()/max() style signature where one input is > interpreted as iterable and multiple arguments as comprising an > input tuple.
Has anyone considered making the iterator __add__ operator perform something similar to chain? I.e. list(a + b) => [ a0, a1, ... an, b0, b1, bn] (where "a" and "b" are iterables) -d _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
