On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:26 PM Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 5:21 AM Neil Girdhar <mistersheik@gmail.com> wrote:
I've seen this proposed here before. The general idea is that some iterator transformations (like enumerate) should return sequences when they're applied to sequences. I think it's good idea, but it adds complexity and work, which I guess needs to be justified on a case-by-case basis.
In short, this has nothing to do with reversed. If you made enumerate return a sequence when its input is a sequence, you would also be able to do enumerate(some_list)[34], which could also be useful. I think it makes Python slightly more perfect and more beautiful.
list(enumerate(some_list)) will give you a sequence, if that's what you want.
Right. And reversed(list(enumerate(some_list)) also works. The point is that if you return sequence views (as Andrew mentioned), you don't need to cast to list explicitly, and you don't pay the computational cost of that either.
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