[Python-3000] Python-3000 Digest, Vol 9, Issue 27
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Nov 14 16:54:10 CET 2006
George Sakkis wrote:
>> don't confuse things like lists and dictionaries with things like
>> sequences and mappings. iterators and iterables belong to the second
>> category.
>
> This doesn't answer my last question: why do we need itertools when we
> can live without sequencetools, mappingtools, fileliketools, etc. ?
try listing the sequence and mapping and file tools that Python actually provides, and
look at how they're used in contemporary Python code. do you see a pattern ?
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