On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:48:03AM +0100, Erik wrote: > On 03/05/17 01:43, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> >I'm not stopping anyone from proposing a generalisation of this that > >works with other sequence types. As somebody did :-) > > Who? I didn't spot that in the thread - please give a reference. Thanks. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2017-May/045568.html [...] > Knowing which sequence classes have a "chunk" method and which don't is > a higher barrier than knowing that all sequences can be "chunked" by a > single imported function. At the moment, we're only talking about strings. That's the only actual use-case been presented so far. Everything else is at best Nice To Have, if not YAGNI. Let's not kill this idea by over-generalising it. We can always extend the idea in the future once it is proven. Or for those who really want a general purpose group-any-iterable function, it can start life as a third party module, and we can discuss adding it to the language when it is mature and the kinks are ironed out. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
