[Python-Dev] Adding start to enumerate()

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 14 May 2008 05:01:20 am you wrote:
> >  While slices are wonderfully useful things, they aren't panaceas.
> >  They're not so useful with iterators, and they make a copy of the
> > data, which can be problematic if there's a *lot* of it.
>
> That's why we have itertools.islice().

I always forget itertools. Perhaps I should engrave it on my monitor as 
a reminder.

With iterators being such a fundamental part of Python these days, 
perhaps one day we'll see the functions in the itertools module become 
iterator methods, as happened with strings. But that's a discussion for 
another day.


-- 
Steven