On 19.06.2021 17:03, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> I think I would find flatten(a) more readable than [*chunk for chunk in a],
> and
> more discoverable: this operation is called "flatten" in other languages, so
> users are going to search the docs or help for that.
+1
> But there could be endless debate about whether flatten( ("x", "y") ) should
> return a list or a tuple...
Have it return an iterator :-)
flatten() would be in the same category of builtins as reversed()
and enumerate().
I think we'll see more discussion about exactly how to flatten
the structures, e.g. do you stop at strings or flatten them into
lists of characters ? But I'm sure we'd reach a sensible default
which makes most happy.
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