[me] > > Since we already have the islice iterator, what's the point?
[Nick] > I'd like to see iterators become as easy to work with as lists are. At the > moment, anything that returns an iterator forces you to use the relatively > cumbersome itertools.islice mechanism, rather than Python's native slice > syntax. Sorry. Still -1. I read your defense, and I'm not convinced. Even Fredrik's support didn't convince me. Iterators are for single sequential access. It's a feature that you have to import itertools (or at least that you have to invoke its special operations) -- iterators are not sequences and shouldn't be confused with such. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
