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

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Mar 25 2016, Michel Desmoulin <desmoulinmichel-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> It's also very convenient for generator expressions:
>
> # get random numbers between 0 and 100000, and square them
> # remove all numbers you can't devide by 3
> # then sample 100 of them
>
> numbers = (x * x for x in random.randint(100000) if x % 3 == 0)
> for x in numbers[:100]:
>     print(x)

If there has ever been an example that I hope to never, ever see in
actual code than it's this one. If you have to make up stuff like that
to justify a proposed feature, then that does not bode well.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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