[issue13252] new decumulate() function in itertools module

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

OK, looking at the code I realised what you're trying to get at is the idea of reporting the differences between values in a series, such that:

x = list(accumulate(seq))
assert x == list(accumulate(differences(x)))

I don't think the use cases are there to justify the addition (not every iterator we can think of should be a building block in itertools), but if such a thing were to be added, "differences" would convey the intention significantly better than the invented term "decumulate".

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