On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 6:46 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
I find it remarkable how people on this
list who often argue "just put it on PyPI" as if that didn't condemn the
proposal to die are now arguing that importing from itertools is an
undue burden.

are you sure it's the SAME people? I don't think ever indicated the "just put it PyPi" waas not a MAOJOR impediment to adoption. And I wouldn't say "undue burden" either, but a burden -- so not always the best place to put things ...

> I believe boolean mode switches are usually a bad design

This proposed mode is not a composable flag like reverse or closefd. If
we treat it as a flag instead of a mode, then we either rule out future
enhancements to zip (they *must* go into new functions), or commit to
piling bool flag upon bool flag even though most of the combinations
will be an error.

I'm still confused why the ternary flag (mode) idea never comes up in these arguments -- I know I like that the best. But yeah, I can except that it's dead.

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