Still an import for that version!

On Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 2:07 AM Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:

> Just trolling along, flattening a list could be written as
>
> functools.reduce(list.__iadd__, xs, [])
>
> Right?
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 22:53 David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 17, 2021, 1:38 AM Chris Angelico
>>
>>> >>> list(chain.from_iterable(list_of_lists))
>>>
>>> > More-itertools has flatten():
>>> https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.flatten.
>>> That seems better than a method specific to lists.
>>>
>>> ... which is built on top of chain.from_iterable. :)
>>>
>>
>> Oh, of course. And anyone can put it in their personal utility library
>> too. I just meant it in the sense that the name might be more intuitive to
>> beginners.
>>
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