On Wed, 14 May 2008 05:01:20 am you wrote: > > While slices are wonderfully useful things, they aren't panaceas. > > They're not so useful with iterators, and they make a copy of the > > data, which can be problematic if there's a *lot* of it. > > That's why we have itertools.islice(). I always forget itertools. Perhaps I should engrave it on my monitor as a reminder. With iterators being such a fundamental part of Python these days, perhaps one day we'll see the functions in the itertools module become iterator methods, as happened with strings. But that's a discussion for another day. -- Steven
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