[Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4)

[Alexander Belopolsky]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:21 PM, Vajrasky Kok
<sky.kok at speaklikeaking.com>wrote:

> What about this alternative? Makes -1 consistently mean unlimited
> repetition and other negative numbers consistently mean zero
> repetitions
>

-1

I think this idea was already rejected on the bug tracker.  It will be very
surprising if list(repeat(x, n)) would be different from [x] * n for
integer n.
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