In the python help for itertools, the following function is provided:def consume(iterator, n): "Advance the iterator n-steps ahead. If n is none, consume entirely." collections.deque(islice(iterator, n), maxlen=0) What is the advantage of using a collections.deque against, say, the following code? def consume(iterator, n): for _ in islice(iterator, n): pass
Probably the former is faster. But I haven't check it. If you are curious, use timeit module... Regards, *j -- Jan Kaliszewski (zuo) <z...@chopin.edu.pl> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
