On 29 June 2012 05:55, Michele Lacchia <michelelacchia@gmail.com> wrote:

+ 1 for the original proposal! I don't think splitting belongs to potential itertools.chunks

Il giorno martedì 26 giugno 2012 14:58:35 UTC+2, Simon Sapin ha scritto:

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Le 26/06/2012 14:42, Joao S. O. Bueno a écrit :

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itertools.chunks(iterable, size=None, separator=None, fill=None)

Requiring at leas one of size or separator to be set?

This would also work for "for x in text.split('\n')"  case.

I think that splitting an iterable on some separators or on a chunck size are two completely different functions. Having the same function do either is a bit confusing and I don’t see the benefit.

Or is there an use case in passing both parameters? What would it do then, end the chunck after `size` elements or at `separator`, whichever comes first?

Indeed - these are orthogonal features - but I think the ability to split on a separator as an interator, if not as important as chunks, is missing as well. Maybe add both? js -><-

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Regards, -- Simon Sapin

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