On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 May 2008 12:25:01 am Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > However I see no use for skipping items > > from the start, > > You've never had to deal with data where the first N items were special > in some way? e.g. skipping over a header line in a file?
Of course I have. But never in the argument to enumerate(). [...] > > and if that use case ever came up, passing a slice to > > enumerate() would be the appropriate thing to do. > > While slices are wonderfully useful things, they aren't panaceas. > They're not so useful with iterators, and they make a copy of the data, > which can be problematic if there's a *lot* of it. That's why we have itertools.islice(). -- --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
