On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:06, George Sakkis wrote: > I understand you are exaggerating (can't believe you are seriously > claiming that cmath or traceback are more frequently used than > itertools),
I certainly use traceback far more than itertools. I use traceback occaissionally, but I've never actually had reason to use itertools at all. > 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). The real issue seems to be that there's no benefit. Iterators are nice because they're composable; that doesn't make the compositions part of the iterator, though. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ 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
