Re: [Python-ideas] Looking for a "batch" function

Shane Hathaway wrote:

- It ignores the type of the container. If I provide a string as input, I expect an iterable of strings as output.

Fine, but...

- If I give a batch size of 1000000, grouper() is going to be rather inefficient.

I guess you would prefer each batch to be a lazy iterator over part of the original sequence -- but that would conflict with the previous requirement. -- Greg