On 6 April 2018 at 02:52, Peter O'Connor <peter.ed.ocon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Combined with the new "last" builtin discussed in the proposal, this would > allow u to replace "reduce" with a more Pythonic comprehension-style syntax.
I think this idea was overshadowed by the larger syntactic proposal in the rest of your email (I know I missed it initially and only noticed it in the thread subject line later). With the increased emphasis on iterators and generators in Python 3.x, the lack of a simple expression level equivalent to "for item in iterable: pass" is occasionally irritating, especially when demonstrating behaviour at the interactive prompt. Being able to reliably exhaust an iterator with "last(iterable)" or "itertools.last(iterable)" would be a nice reduction function to offer, in addition to our existing complement of builtin reducers like sum(), any() and all(). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
