On 2012-12-05, Nick Mellor <thebalance...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Terry, > > For my money, and especially in your versions, despite several > expert solutions using other features, itertools has it. It > seems to me to need less nutting out than the other approaches. > It's short, robust, has a minimum of symbols, uses simple > expressions and is not overly clever. If we could just get used > to using takewhile.
The main reason most of the solutions posted failed is lack of complete specification to work with while sumultaneously trying to make as tiny and simplistic a solution as possible. I'm struggling with the empty description bug right now. ;) -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
