<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">raymond.hettinger</b> <<a href="mailto:python-checkins@python.org">python-checkins@python.org</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
+>>> def constant_factory(value):<br>+... return itertools.repeat(value).next</blockquote><div><br>Ehm, no offense, Raymond (I know you love itertools, and so do I) but could we maybe write this as:<br><br>>>> def constant_factory(value):
<br>... return lambda: value<br></div><br>(or the two-line inner-function way to write the same thing.) It is, after all, documentation of defaultdict, not of weird-ways-to-use-itertools ;)<br></div><br>-- <br>Thomas Wouters <
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