On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 4:58 AM Tim Peters <tim.pet...@gmail.com> wrote: > Or perhaps the `compress()` implementation could grow internal > conditionals to use a different algorithm if the second argument is > omitted. But that would be a major change to support something that's > already easily done in more than one more-than-less obvious way.
At which point it'd be basically just turning compress(iter, None) into filter(None, iter) and we gain nothing. Agreed. So this proposal has minimal value and enough wrinkles to make it highly unappealing. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/YEUVVUX4D7WOP7AGPOBF5R3UPCDOEKA4/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
