Oct. 23, 2016
3:42 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 08:37:07AM -0700, David Mertz wrote:
Of course. But if you want last(), why not just spell the utility function as I did? I.e. as a function:
def last(it): for item in it: pass return item
That works fine for any iteratable (including a list, array, etc), whether or not it's a reduction/accumulation.
That's no good, because it consumes the iterator. Yes, you get the last value, but you actually needed to do work on all the previous values too. -- Steve