itertools.take?

[Raymond Hettinger]

"Dan Williams" <dan at osheim.org> wrote in message
news:vh6q7cl5ifin20 at corp.supernews.com...
> Is there any interest in adding a "Haskellish" take function to
> itertools? I know its easy enough to roll my own, I've been using:
>
> take = lambda iter, n: [x for x in itertools.islice(iter, 0, n)]

I use:

>>> def take(n, seq):
...     return list(islice(seq, n))


> which works, but I was wondering if it was common enough to get into
> itertools?

It made it to the lastest update of the examples in the docs for itertools.
If there is enough demand, it could go into Py2.4


Raymond Hettinger