On 1 July 2017 at 07:13, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > But the more I think about it the more I agree with Nick. Let's start > by moving itertools.chain into built-ins, with zip and map, and only > consider giving it an operator after we've had a few years of experience > with chain as a built-in. We might even find that an operator doesn't > add any real value.
I'm struck here by the contrast between this and the "let's slim down the stdlib" debates we've had in the past. How difficult is it really to add "from itertools import chain" at the start of a file? It's not even as if itertools is a 3rd party dependency. Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
