Why chunks is not part of the python standard lib?
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed May 1 03:10:11 EDT 2013
On 01/05/2013 07:26, Ricardo Azpeitia Pimentel wrote:
> After reading How do you split a list into evenly sized chunks in
> Python?
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/312443/how-do-you-split-a-list-into-evenly-sized-chunks-in-python>
> and seeing this kind of mistakes happening
> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/18972 all the time.
>
> Why is not a |chunks| function in itertools?
>
> |grouper| from
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/itertools.html#recipes doesn't have the
> same behavior as |chunks |
>
> Example:
> |
>
> |chunks([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], 3)
> # Should return [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5]] or the iterator equivalent.|
>
> |Original Post on StackOverflow:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16313008/why-chunks-is-not-part-of-the-python-standard-lib
>
>
Asked and answered a trillion times. There's no concensus on how chucks
should behave.
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