[issue24874] Improve pickling efficiency of itertools.cycle

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger added the comment:

When a cycle object has fully consumed its input iterable, __reduce__ method uses the returns a space-inefficient result when space-efficient alternative is available.

# Current way of restoring a cycle object with excess info in setstate:
>>> c = cycle(iter('de'))
>>> c.__setstate__((['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'], 1))
>>> ''.join(next(c) for i in range(20)) # next 20 values
'deabcdeabcdeabcdeabc'

# The same result can be achieved with less information: 
>>> c = cycle(iter('de'))
>>> c.__setstate__((['a', 'b', 'c'], 0))
>>> ''.join(next(c) for i in range(20)) # next 20 values
'deabcdeabcdeabcdeabc'

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