Dec. 9, 2019
2:59 p.m.
On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 10:02 PM Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> wrote:
BTW, another change I'd make is to break the tradition of coding every itertools function in C. That makes the implementation bar much higher, and the other similar packages (more_itertools, toolz.itertools) don't bother. There's also that pypy has trouble optimizing code using itertools heavily, _because_ it's written in C instead of Python.
This deserves a separate thread. If we're going to gradually add more recipes to itertools, that sounds like a good idea. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-c...>