Re: groupby behaviour

2013-02-26 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:27 AM, andrea crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote: So I was trying to use groupby (which I used in the past), but I noticed a very strange thing if using list on the result: As stated in the docs: The returned group is itself an iterator that shares the

Re: groupby behaviour

2013-02-26 Thread andrea crotti
2013/2/26 Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com: On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:27 AM, andrea crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com wrote: So I was trying to use groupby (which I used in the past), but I noticed a very strange thing if using list on the result: As stated in the docs: The returned group

Re: groupby behaviour

2013-02-26 Thread Paul Rubin
andrea crotti andrea.crott...@gmail.com writes: It's very weird though this sharing and still doesn't really look rightl, is it done just for performance reasons? It could consume unbounded amounts of memory otherwise. E.g. if there are millions of items in the group. If you're not worried