On 29/07/12 12:21, Peter Otten wrote:

plenty modules I haven't explored yet - and I must admit itertools
is one that I really should get to grips with...

You're nuts :)  Itertools to me is the Swiss Army Knife

If you don't have to deal with large datasets many of its functions can
easily be emulated with lists and loops though.

Exactly. and if I deal with large data its usually in a SQL database and I can use SQL to do the hard work. So the groupby type functions are for me a SQL feature.

But I know thee itertools has a lot of powerful stuff in it, I just haven't had a big enough itch to investige it yet. :-)

And at the moment I'm immersing myself in JQuery so it will be a while before itertools gets a look in!

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Alan G
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/

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