On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 01:44:15AM +0000, MRAB wrote: > > values = take(count, items, default=None) [...]
> Why is the count first? Why not have the (definitely required) items > first and let the count have a default of 1? I lifted the bulk of the function, including the signature, from the recipe in the itertools documentation. I suspect the reason the recipe specifies the count first is because that follows the standard order in English: "take two of the eggs" rather than "take eggs two of". -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/AII2S52VGXNA4OJDVGFIRDON3HMMGEFV/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
