[Python-ideas] Integrate some itertools into the Python syntax

[Graham Gower]

On 22 March 2016 at 16:19, Michael Selik <mike at selik.org> wrote:
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>> On Mar 21, 2016, at 7:06 PM, Michel Desmoulin <desmoulinmichel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> if you need more, then you need itertools. Few people know about it, so I
>> usually see duplicate loops and conversion to lists/tuples.
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> Why do you think the new syntax you're suggesting will be more discoverable and therefore more well known than the itertools module?

And consider the other side of the coin. If I read code using a
function of the itertools module, its easy to look up the definition;
if I read code featuring a rarely used syntax, how easy is it to come
up with search engine terms to describe the syntax, and thus find
documentation for the feature?