[Oren Tirosh] > I like this function, but the argument name is misleading - it isn't > necessarily an iterator. In the common use cases it will be a list or > tuple. > > def peel(iterable, arg_cnt=2): > iterator = iter(iterable) > for num in xrange(arg_cnt): > yield iterator.next() > yield iterator > > The name 'iterable' is unambigous but a little awkward. I'd like to > use the term 'sequence' but I'm afraid people already associate it > with the built-in sequence types or with something indexable rather > than iterable. Do you think of iterators as a sequences? > I know I think of them as a lazy sequence. But you are right, people tend to associate sequence with either lists or tuples, perhaps because you can do indexing on them. -Brett
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