[Python-Dev] itertools.chain should take an iterable ?
Christos Georgiou
tzot at mediconsa.com
Fri Sep 2 14:45:42 CEST 2005
"Paolino" <paolo_veronelli at libero.it> wrote in message
news:431842AA.2050405 at libero.it...
> What if I want to chain an infinite list of iterables?
> Shouldn't itertools.chain be built to handle that?
Raymond already suggested a four-line function that does exactly that.
Create your own personal-library modules containing the functions you find
useful as building blocks, and when you have a large sw base using them,
present your building blocks along with their use cases as arguments for
inclusion in the standard library.
> I don't think it is a problem to accept only the second case you paste
> and produce TypeError on the others.
It would break compatibility with the current uses of itertools.chain . I
like it (and have used it) as it is.
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