[Python-ideas] + operator on generators

Stephan Houben stephanh42 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 09:53:14 EDT 2017


> Its the applications where it *is* important that
> we should be looking at.

Um, yes, but given our relative positions in this debate,
the onus is not really on *me* to demonstrate such an application, right?
That would just confuse everbody ;-)

(FWIW, Sagemath is not mostly "numerical processing", it is mostly
*symbolic* calculations and involves a lot of complex algorithms and
datastructures, including sequences.)

Stephan

2017-06-27 13:48 GMT+02:00 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 01:32:05PM +0200, Stephan Houben wrote:
>> Hi Steven,
>>
>> To put this into perspective, I did some greps on Sagemath,
>> being the largest Python project I have installed on this machine
>> (1955 .py files).
>
> And one which is especially focused on numerical processing, not
> really the sort of thing that does a much iterator chaining. That's
> hardly a fair test -- we know there are applications where chaining is
> not important at all. Its the applications where it *is* important that
> we should be looking at.
>
>
> --
> Steve
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