> 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.
FWIW, someone (Bengt Richter perhaps) once suggested syntactic support differentiated from sequences but less awkward than a call to itertools.islice(). itertools.islice(someseq, lo, hi) would be rendered as someseq'[lo:hi]. Raymond _______________________________________________ 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
