Duncan Booth wrote: > Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > >> With next(islice(...), None) I seem to have found a variant that beats >> both competitors. >> > It has different behaviour for n==0 but I'm sure that's easily fixed.
"Different behaviour" being a euphemism for broken ;)
def consume_islice(n, items):
if n == 0:
return
next(islice(items, n-1, None), None)
Peter
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