[Python-ideas] itertools recipes: why not add them to the stdlib *somewhere*?

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Tue Jul 10 00:36:26 CEST 2012


On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:28:41AM +1000, wu wei <wuwei23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Every inclusion to the library adds overhead to finding and using elements
> of the library.

   And supporting it. It's much harder to remove bits from stdlib than
to add to it because stdlib have to maintain backward compatibility.

Oleg.
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