On 8/15/2013 4:16 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote:
itertools.chain.from_iterable. But I think that was a mistake, too. As a
recent discussion showed, it's not exactly discoverable. The fact that
it's not mentioned in the list of functions at the top of the
documentation doesn't help. And "chain" is documented as a "module
function", and "chain.from_iterable" as a "classmethod" making it all
the more confusing.
I think itertools.combinations and
itertools.combinations_with_replacement is the better example of related
functions that should be followed. Not nested, no special parameters
trying to differentiate them: just two different function names.
Great implied idea. I opened http://bugs.python.org/issue18752
"Make chain.from_iterable an alias for a new chain_iterable."
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Terry Jan Reedy
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