[Python-ideas] chunks implementation

[anatoly techtonik]

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 1 May 2013 17:56:28 +0300
> anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 16+ hours work.
> >
> > print(list( chunks('sadfdfa', 3) ))
> > print(list( chunks(range(8), 3) ))
> > print(list( chunks([1,2,3,4,5,7], 3) ))
>
> As long as you are not willing to sign a contributor's agreement,
> there's no point posting any code snippets or patches here.
>

This code is in public domain. What's wrong with that? I can say  what's
wrong with Python CLA which basically relicenses code under Apache 2.0
license to "whatever license PSF wants", which is pretty illegal (i.e.
doesn't work) as I see it. But that's really offtopic. I've posted a
question to the python-legal-sig related to documentation and Wikipedia.
I.e. Wikipedia doesn't require you to sign CLA, so let's allow them to sort
it out first.

You have my confirmation as an author that the code is in public domain.
You can use MIT license if there is a problem with public domain works not
made by NASA in US. You can ask me about patents and I say that I don't own
and don't aware of any patents related to this code. What's wrong with
community process here? I am here. I am not dead yet. If PSF is afraid of
something - I can answer publicly. Just tell me what's wrong with that.
What is this deal with signing these papers? Nobody understands the
outcomings, nobody can say in public how it works, but everybody follows
the procedure. Is this the modern behavior of Python hackers praised by
Paul Graham. To me it looks like a lemming behavior liked by corporations
and controlling organizations. May I opt-out from be a lemming in Python
community as I see it and still have an ability to contribute?

Sorry, my SSD or Vista or some software had just failed and I am a little
bit on the edge for losing a partition with experimental code and a lot of
valuable notes for more than half of the year, so I am not filtering that I
write, and that's also the reason I probably won't be able to support the
discussion in upcoming few weeks.

If you want advice about your personal work, it is off-topic for
> python-ideas, please use python-list instead.
>

 There is a trick in this code which I believe is crucial to understanding
why this code is not in stdlib yet.
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