On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 at 14:38, Paul Bryan <pbr...@anode.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-03-19 at 10:22 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> I’m not convinced that we need aiter(x, sentinel) at all — for iter() it’s
> mostly a legacy compatibility API.
>
>
> I'm feel like I'm going to learn something today. To date, the pattern
> I've used for getting the first item from an iterable:
>
> next(iter(i))
>
>
> What's the recommended alternative?
>
I end up doing this most times:
def first(i):
return next(iter(i))
Seens too simple to request to be in the sdlib, and it is so simple that
would be forgotten if it were
in any 3rd party extension
>
> Paul
>
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