On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 10:22:32AM +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 08:47:12AM -0700, David Mertz wrote: > > Consuming the iterator is *necessary* to get the last item. There's no way > > around that. > > > > Obviously, you could itertools.tee() it first if you don't mind the cache > > space. But there cannot be a generic "jump to the end" of an iterator > > without being destructive. > > Right. But you're missing the point of Danilo's proposal.
Ah, actually it may be that I have misunderstood Danilo's proposal, because his example does include BOTH a suggestion of new magic syntax for retrieving the *previous* loop value inside a comprehension AND what seems to be a new built-in(?) function last() which seems to do exactly what you suggest: jump right to the end of an iterable and return the final value. My apologies for the confusion. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
