On Dec 29, 6:10 pm, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > These thoughts reflect my own experience with the itertools module. > It may be that your experience with them has been different. Please > let me know what you think.
first off, the itertools module is amazing, thanks for creating it. It changed the way I think about programming. In fact nowadays I start all my programs with: from itertools import * which may not be the best form, but I got tired of importing every single function individually or writing out the module name. Now I never needed the dropwhile() and takewhile() functions, but that may not mean much. For quite a while I never needed the repeat() function either. It even looked nonsensical to have an iterator that simply repeats the same thing over and over. One day I had to solve a problem that needed repeat() and made me really understand what it was for and got to marvel at a just how neat the solution was. i. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
