On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 6:46 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 06:02:34PM +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: >> One small change: If you use next(i) instead of i.next(), your code >> should work on both Py2 and Py3. But other than that, I think it's >> exactly the same as most people would expect of this function. > > Not me. As far as I can tell, that's semantically equivalent to: > > def single(i): > result, = i > return result > > apart from slightly different error messages.
I saw the original code as being like the itertools explanatory functions - you wouldn't actually USE those functions, but they tell you what's going on when you use the simpler, faster, more compact form. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
