[Python-Dev] Re: itertools, was RE: list.sort
Alex Martelli
aleaxit at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 17 19:43:36 EDT 2003
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
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