[Python-ideas] iter() on steroids

[Brett Cannon]

On 4/13/07, Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> wrote:
>
>
> "George Sakkis" <gsakkis at rutgers.edu> wrote:
> > On 4/13/07, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> > > I personally think there are too many builtins.
> >
> > I agree, that's why I don't suggest a new builtin but adding features
> > to an existing one. In fact, this can even *reduce* the builtins since
> > map(), zip() and enumerate() could be removed from the builtin
> > namespace.
>
> Map was already going to be removed because it can be replaced by...
>     [f(x) for x in y]
>
> Filter was already going to be removed because it can be replaced by...
>     [x for x in y if f(x)]
>
> I can't remember if anything was going to happen to zip or any of the
> other functional programming functions.



zip is staying but replaced underneath the covers with itertools.izip.

-Brett
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