On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Stutzbach stutzb...@google.com
wrote:
Is there a good use-case for the func argument?
The examples that Raymond gives in the docs (cumulative
multiplication, running min/max,
On Mar 28, 2011, at 12:38 AM, Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Stutzbach stutzb...@google.com
wrote:
Is there a good use-case for the func argument?
The examples that Raymond gives
On 28.03.2011 09:49, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
On Mar 28, 2011, at 12:38 AM, Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Nick Coghlan ncogh...@gmail.com
mailto:ncogh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Stutzbach stutzb...@google.com
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Raymond Hettinger
raymond.hettin...@gmail.com wrote:
Do a google code search for R's builtin functions cumsum, cumprod, cummin,
and cummax. Look at mumpy's accumulate ufunc which works with many
operators. APL and K also have an accumulate tool which takes
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:52 PM, raymond.hettinger
python-check...@python.org wrote:
-.. function:: accumulate(iterable)
+.. function:: accumulate(iterable[, func])
Make an iterator that returns accumulated sums. Elements may be any
addable
-type including :class:`Decimal` or
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Daniel Stutzbach stutzb...@google.com wrote:
Is there a good use-case for the func argument? I can only think of bad
use-cases (where func does something that does not remotely resemble
addition). I fear that people will actually implement these bad use-cases,
