I would also submit there's some value in the obvious readability of z = runlength.encode(sequence)
vs z = [(k, len(list(g))) for k, g in itertools.groupby(sequence)] but that's my personal opinion. Everyone is welcome to use my code, but I probably won't submit to pypi for a two function module, it was just an idea :) I do think it's worth adding to the docs, though, if only for future people / me googling "run length encoding python" and only finding stack overflow. On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 6/10/2017 11:27 PM, Joshua Morton wrote: > > Neal: As for why zip (at first I thought you meant the zip function, not >> the zip compression scheme) is included and rle is not, zip is (or was), I >> believe, used as part of python's packaging infrastructure, hopefully >> someone else can correct me if that's untrue. >> > > cpython can run from a zipped version of the stdlib. > In fact, sys.path contains 'C:\\Programs\\Python36\\python36.zip' > > -- > Terry Jan Reedy > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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