On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > > To address the main problem of users not finding what they need, what about > simply extending the docstring of the grouper() function with a sentence > like this: > > "This functionality is also called 'chunking' or 'blocking' and can be used > for load distribution and sharding." > > That would make it easy for users to find what they are looking for when > they search the page for "chunk". I find that a much more common and less > ambiguous name than "grouping", which reminds me more of "group by".
In appeared that "chunking" and "grouping" are different kind of tasks. You can chunk a sequence (sting) by slicing it into smaller sequences, but you can not chunk in iterable - you can only group it. There is an data loss about the structure that occurs when a sequence (string) becomes an iterator: chunks ABCDE -> AB CD E group ABCDE -> A B C D E -> (A B) (C D) (D E) _______________________________________________ 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
