"George Sakkis"
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| In some sense it's a chicken-and-egg problem. My guess is that one
| reason itertools are not used as much as they could/should is that
| they are "hidden away" in a module, which makes one think it twice
| before importing it (let alone newbies that don't even know its
| existence). As a single data point, I'm a big fan itertools and still
| I'm often lazy to import it to use, say izip() only once; I just go
| with zip() instead.
I personally think there are too many builtins. So I would like some
pushed to modules, which means more import statements. Oh, dear.
If you have trouble writing 'from itertools import izip' or 'import
itertools as it', then I guess it is hard to promote a module.
Nonetheless, I think perhaps you should write your own based on iter and
itertools. And put it up on PyPI if it works at least for you.
Terry Jan Reedy