On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:10:24 -0800, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> These thoughts reflect my own experience with the itertools module.
> It may be that your experience with them has been different. Please
> let me know what you think.
I seem to be in a minority here as I use both functions from time to time.
One "recipe" is extracting blocks from text files that are delimited by a
special start and end line.
def iter_block(lines, start_marker, end_marker):
return takewhile(lambda x: not x.startswith(end_marker),
dropwhile(lambda x: not x.startswith(start_marker),
lines))
Maybe these functions usually don't turn up in code that can be called
"recipes" so often but are useful for themselves.
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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