The list.pop(index) returns the element represented by the index and also
reduces the list by removing that element. So it a short one liner for doing
both things.
But when it comes for popping a slice of the list there is nothing similar for
doing in that simple way.
If you want to remove a
Neatu Ovidiu Gabriel wrote:
The list.pop(index) returns the element represented by the index and also
reduces the list by removing that element. So it a short one liner for
doing both things. But when it comes for popping a slice of the list there
is nothing similar for doing in that simple
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 1:07:16 PM UTC+3, Peter Otten wrote:
Neatu Ovidiu Gabriel wrote:
The list.pop(index) returns the element represented by the index and also
reduces the list by removing that element. So it a short one liner for
doing both things. But when it comes for
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Neatu Ovidiu neatu...@gmail.com wrote:
But what's your use case?
Does it occur often enough that you cannot afford a two-liner like
I think uses cases are plenty.
The possible cases I can think of would be better served with list
comprehensions (what
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:12:53 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Neatu Ovidiu neat...@gmail.com wrote:
But what's your use case?
Does it occur often enough that you cannot afford a two-liner like
I think uses cases are plenty.
The
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:12:53 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Neatu Ovidiu neat...@gmail.com wrote:
But what's your use case?
Does it occur often enough that you cannot afford a two-liner like
I think uses cases are plenty.
The
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:44:05 PM UTC+3, Neatu Ovidiu wrote:
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:12:53 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Neatu Ovidiu neat...@gmail.com wrote:
But what's your use case?
Does it
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Neatu Ovidiu neatu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:44:05 PM UTC+3, Neatu Ovidiu wrote:
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:12:53 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Neatu Ovidiu neat...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 4:08:13 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Neatu Ovidiu neat...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:44:05 PM UTC+3, Neatu Ovidiu wrote:
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:12:53 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8,
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Neatu Ovidiu neatu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 4:08:13 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote:
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Neatu Ovidiu neat...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:44:05 PM UTC+3, Neatu Ovidiu wrote:
On
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:40 AM, Neatu Ovidiu neatu...@gmail.com wrote:
This can be useful for doing all kinds of basic stuff. For example if you
wanted to take 4 items of a list at at a time, do something with them and
then update the list.
jobs = ['job1', 'job2', 'job3', 'job5', 'job6',
On 8/8/2013 7:44 AM, Neatu Ovidiu wrote:
Objection 1. People usually want to chunk sequences, not lists
specifically. We now try to add new features that work with iterators
and iterables generally, not just lists.
This can be useful for doing all kinds of basic stuff. For example if you
On 8 August 2013 21:03, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
If .pop were being added today, I would argue against including the index
parameter.
GASP! That's no fair!
1) When using pop you normally want to keep the mutability available,
so iter(mylist) is a no-go.
2) When using the index, it's
On 2013-08-08 22:32, Joshua Landau wrote:
On 8 August 2013 21:03, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
If .pop were being added today, I would argue against including
the index parameter.
3) There's always deque for deques
Unless you have pre-2.4 code, in which case I'm glad .pop() was
On 8/8/2013 5:32 PM, Joshua Landau wrote:
On 8 August 2013 21:03, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
If .pop were being added today, I would argue against including the index
parameter.
GASP! That's no fair!
1) When using pop you normally want to keep the mutability available,
so
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