Iterating over a function call

[Gerald Britton]

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> You have itertools.consume which is close to what you want:
>
>    consume(imap(func, iterable)) # 2.x
>
>    consume(map(func, iterable)) # 3.x
>
> HTH

It does! Though in my case this is simpler:

    deque(imap(func, iterable), 0)

since the recipe for consume just calls deque anyway when you want to
eat up the rest of the iterable.  It also solves the iterator-variable
leakage problem and is only a wee bit slower than a conventional
for-loop.

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-- 
Gerald Britton