[Python-Dev] Re: itertools, was RE: list.sort

[Michael Hudson]

Alex Martelli <aleaxit at yahoo.com> writes:

> On Monday 20 October 2003 05:02 pm, Michael Hudson wrote:
>    ...
>> > islice's odious range-like ordering of arguments.
>>
>> Yes, that rubs me the wrong way too.  That and I always read it
>> is-lice (and imap always makes me think of mail...).
>
> is-lice might be useful in a debugger, though.

*groan*

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