On 11/14/06, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote: > Uhuh. And why would this more important than adding, say, Array, > AtExit, Bz2, Cgi, CgiTB, Cmath, Code, Codecs, Collections, Copy, Csv, > DateTime, Decimal, ElementTree, ErrNo, Ftplib, Gc, GetOpt, GetText, > Glob, Gzip, HashLib, HMac, Inspect, Locale, Logging, Marshal, Math, > Mmap, Operator, Os, OsPath, Pickle, Platform, Random, Re, Select, > ShUtil, SmtpLib, Socket, Struct, SubProcess, Sys, TempFile, Threading, > Time, Traceback, UnicodeData, UrlLib, UrlLib2, UrlParse, Warnings, > WeakRef, XmlDom, XmlSax, ZipFile, or Zlib builtins? Most of these are > definitely used a lot more often than itertools in typical Python > programs... > > </F>
I understand you are exaggerating (can't believe you are seriously claiming that cmath or traceback are more frequently used than itertools), but if your objection is on adding yet another builtin, what would be the objection to boosting up the existing iter() to provide this extra functionality ? This might even be backwards compatible (but even if it's not, that's not a main concern for py-3k). George _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
