[Python-ideas] lazy list

[Alexander Atkins]

Whoops, at some point I hit 'Reply' instead of 'Reply All', so some of
these messages didn't end up in the public group.

On 14 May 2015 at 16:22, Alexander Atkins <alexander at tutorfair.com> wrote:
>
> On 14 May 2015 at 16:01, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It may well already exist on PyPI. There are a few things with "lazy"
> > in their names; you'd have to poke around and see if one of them is of
> > use to you.
>
> Ah, yes.  The package zc.lazylist looks quite similar.  In some ways it's
better than mine, in some ways it's not so ambitious.  It's quite difficult
to work out who the author is, though.  It just says "Copyright Zope 2006",
which isn't very helpful.
>
> I should perhaps reiterate that I have already written a lazy-list
implementation, and therefore I don't need another one.  What I was
wondering is whether I should make any effort to share it with the
community.  I'm quite happy to shut up and go back to my paid work if
that's not useful to anyone.

(I'm leaving out Chris' intervening message in case he didn't intend it to
be public – not that there's anything saucy in there.)

On 14 May 2015 at 16:46, Alexander Atkins <alexander at tutorfair.com> wrote:
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> On 14 May 2015 at 16:29, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Fair enough. What I'd recommend is putting it up on PyPI yourself; if
> > something like this ever does make it into the standard library, it'll
> > most likely be by incorporation of a PyPI package.
>
> Yes, that seems to be the thing to do.  Some day when I've got a minute,
I'll incorporate the improvements from Zope's implementation (the ideas, I
mean, not the code) and fix up my slice implementation, then put it on PyPi.

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J Alexander D Atkins
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