itertools comments [Was: Re: RELEASED: Python 2.3a2]

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> My only misgiving about the naming convention is that
> islice() can be read as is-lice instead of i-slice.

No, you'll have to import that from the new bug-detecting
module being developed for 2.4, which it is rumoured will
also provide isaphid(), istermite(), isvarroamite() and
ispaintedapplemoth().

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Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
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