Andrey Fedorov wrote:
Is that right, or am I missing something obvious?
How would starreduce differ from normal reduction? The difference between map and starmap is that the former consumes the iterable arguments immediately and produces a list, the latter produces an iterator (and lazily consumes its input as values are retrieved from the iterator). There is no similar distinction to be made in the case of reduce: the only relevant semantic is to consume the entire iterable and produce the final output value. If you're suggesting a new kind of iterator that provides a progress report at each step through the source iterable, that isn't really reduction anymore, so the starreduce name would be misleading. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------