[Python-Dev] Some RFE for review

[Raymond Hettinger]

[Paul Moore on readline getting a record separator argument]
> As a more general approach, would it be worth considering an addition
> to itertools which took an iterator which generated "blocks" of items,
> and split them on a subsequence? 

Nope.  Assign responsibility to the class that has all of the relevant
knowledge (API for retrieving blocks, type of the retrieved data, how
EOF is detected, etc).


> It's a generalisation of the basic
> pattern here, and would be able to encapsulate the fiddly "what if a
> separator overlaps a block split" logic without locking it down to
> string manipulation...

How do you build, scan, and extract the buffer in a type independent
manner?  Are there any use cases for non-string data buffers, a stream
of integers or somesuch?


Raymond