On Tue, Oct 6, 2020, 1:21 PM Christopher Barker > if you want to iterate through items N to the end, then how do you do that > without either iterating through the first N and throwing them away, or > making a slice, which copies the rest of the sequence? >
it = (lst[i] for i in range(N, len(lst))) I haven't benchmarked whether this is faster than islice. It might depend on how many you wind up consuming. It's slightly cumbersome to write, I suppose. But it also seems like something one RARELY needs.
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