Favorite non-python language trick?

[Konstantin Veretennicov]

On 25 Jun 2005 12:17:20 -0700, George Sakkis <gsakkis at rutgers.edu> wrote:
> If they go to itertools, they can simply be:
> 
> def map(f, *iterables):
>     return list(imap(f,*iterables))
> 
> def filter(f, seq):
>     return list(ifilter(f,seq))

>>> from itertools import ifilter
>>> def filter(f, seq):
...     return list(ifilter(f,seq))
>>> filter(str.isalpha, 'not quite!')
['n', 'o', 't', 'q', 'u', 'i', 't', 'e']
>>> __builtins__.filter(str.isalpha, 'not quite!')
'notquite'

- kv