[Python-ideas] Include partitioning in itertools

[Sven R. Kunze]

Hey Lukas,

I agree both version (+ the n-part-partition-version of it) might be 
very useful to have.

But where do they go into?

itertools might be the right place for the iter_partition; but where to 
with the set_partition?

Best,
Sven

On 01.11.2015 19:30, Lukas Juhrich wrote:
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> Hi Sven,
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> The issue here is that such an implementation does not allow “gaps”
> and implicitly enforces that the elements of such a partition only
> contain elements directly following each other, thus making it not a
> complete implementation of producing a set partition.  To give a
> specific counterexample, `['acd', 'bef']` will never be produced.
>
> The question to ask is whether you want to implement exact
> mathematical set partition, or if you implement something with the
> above constraint, and call it something different like “iterable
> partition”.  If choosing the latter, however, it should be made clear
> by the function name and in the documentation that this is *not*
> comparable to set partition.
>
> Perhaps it will be useful to implement both concepts, since such an
> “iterable partition” seems to be easier to implement and will perhaps
> be faster (which, however, is a blind guess and depends on the
> implementation of producing a set partition).
>
> - --
> Sincerely,
> Lukas
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