Laurent Pointal: > you may prefer range/items when processing of the result > value explicitly need a list (ex. calculate its length)
Creating a very long list just to know the len of an iterator is
barbaric, so sometimes I use this:
def leniter(iterator):
if hasattr(iterator, "__len__"):
return len(iterator)
nelements = 0
for _ in iterator:
nelements += 1
return nelements
Bye,
bearophile
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