Re: [Python-ideas] PEP 479 and take()

10 Dec 2014


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On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Oscar Benjamin 
mailto:oscar.j.benjamin@gmail.com> wrote:
class TakeError(Exception):
        pass
def take(iterator, n=None):
        if n is None:
            try:
                return next(iterator)
            except StopIteration:
                raise TakeError
        else:
            return tuple(take(iterator) for _ in range(n))
Won't that just shift the problem from leaked StopIterations
to leaked TakeErrors?

-- 
Greg

Re: [Python-ideas] PEP 479 and take()

Greg Ewing