[Python-ideas] Add a module itertools.recipes

Antoine Rozo antoine.rozo at gmail.com
Sat Oct 14 02:06:54 EDT 2017


I am not searching for an external library (as I pointed, there are some on
PyPI like iterutils or more-itertools).
My point was that recipes are documented in itertools module, but not
implemented in standard library, and it would be useful to have them
available.

2017-10-13 20:35 GMT+02:00 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Antoine Rozo <antoine.rozo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > A very useful part of the itertools module's documentation is the section
> > "Recipes", giving utility functions that use itertools iterators.
> > But when you want to use one of theese functions, you have to copy it in
> > your source code (or use external PyPI modules like iterutils).
> >
> > Can we consider making itertools a package and adding a module
> > itertools.recipes that implements all these utilility functions?
>
> Check out more-itertools on PyPI - maybe that's what you want?
>
> ChrisA
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