Not understanding itertools.dropwhile()

Jason Friedman jsf80238 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 29 19:41:30 EDT 2017


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import itertools

data = """Line1
Line2

Line4
Line5"""

def test_to_start(s):
    return "2" in s

for line in itertools.dropwhile(test_to_start, data.splitlines()):
    print(line)

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I expect:

$ python3 dropwhile.py
Line2

Line4
Line5


I get:

$ python3 dropwhile.py
Line1
Line2

Line4
Line5


Please explain.



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