[Python-ideas] Extremely weird itertools.permutations

[Nick Coghlan]

On 15 October 2013 11:29, Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com> wrote:
> You make a good point.  It was just a random example to illustrate that
> desire for completeness.

The desire for conceptual purity and consistency is a good one, it
just needs to be balanced against the practical constraints of
writing, maintaining, documenting, teaching and learning the standard
library.

"It isn't worth the hassle" is the answer to a whole lot of "Why not
X?" questions in software development :)

Cheers,
Nick.

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