On 12 Mar 2005 00:44:39 +0200, rumours say that Ville Vainio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written:
> Christos> This is just a personal opinion, but I detest restraints > Christos> on library (itertools module in this case) expansion > Christos> when talking about such useful *building blocks*. > >Yeah - esp. in the case of flattening. If it was deemed useful enough >to be the default behavior in perl (which is admittedly braindamaged), >it should surely warrant being included as a single function in the >stdlib. Or a window function, which I have needed enough times in *separate* occasions to add it in one of my personal "stdlib" modules (hinting it could be part of itertools): window('hello', 2) => 'he', 'el', 'll', 'lo' -- TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best. "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958) I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list