Re: [Python-ideas] itertools.documentation.ncycles is a bit of a sore thumb

Julian Berman writes:

The top of the recipe section in the itertools documentation says:

"The superior memory performance is kept by processing elements one at a time

rather than bringing the

whole iterable into memory all at once."

but itertools.ncycles doesn't really. It's one line, so I'll inline it here:

In this case, I think it means that iterable*n is never held all in memory.