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[Python-Dev] re: list comprehension / pop quiz

[Python-Dev] re: list comprehension / pop quiz [Python-Dev] re: list comprehension / pop quizPaul Prescod paul@prescod.net
Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:44:29 -0500
Moshe Zadka wrote:
> 
> What would people think about xmap(), which acts anologously to xrange(),
> IOW calculate lazilly instead of eagerly? Or even, calculate "on demand",
> without caching:
> ....
> Wouldn't this solve the parallel iteration problem?

I don't think that using a function called "xmap" to build tuples is
very intuitive to start with. What's so wrong with a builtin called
"tuples()"?

-- 
 Paul Prescod - Not encumbered by corporate consensus
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. 
	- http://www.cs.yale.edu/~perlis-alan/quotes.html





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