[Python-Dev] Re: itertools, was RE: list.sort

[Alex Martelli]

On Saturday 18 October 2003 12:46 am, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
   ...
> My misgivings about drop() and take() are, firstly, that they
> are expressible in-terms of islice() so they don't really add
> any new capability.  Secondly, the number of tools needs to be

True.  I gotta remember that -- I find it unintuitive, maybe it's
islice's odious range-like ordering of arguments.


Alex