[Python-ideas] + operator on generators

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Wed Jun 28 12:28:52 EDT 2017


On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:47:21PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote:

> While I haven't been following this thread closely, I'd like to note
> that arguing for a "chain()" builtin has the virtue that would just be
> arguing for the promotion of the existing itertools.chain function
> into the builtin namespace.

Yes, given the difficulties in choosing a operator, I'm leaning towards 
this approach now: promote itertools.chain to a builtin, and re-visit 
the operator suggestions in 3.8 or 3.9.


-- 
Steve


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