[Python-Dev] Re: "groupby" iterator
Guido van Rossum
guido at python.org
Mon Dec 1 11:18:20 EST 2003
> P.S. I'm leaning toward Alex's suggested argument order. Having a
> default identity function is too attractive to pass up. So the choice
> is between a style like map(None, s) or something closer to
> list.sorted(s, key=). Though the latter is not consistent with other
> itertools, it wins in the beauty department and its similarity with the
> key= is a accurate, helpful analogy.
Good. Have you thought about the name yet? Will it be grouped() or
grouby()?
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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