[Python-ideas] grouping / dict of lists
Greg Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Jul 3 19:22:40 EDT 2018
MRAB wrote:
> I think that building an iterable of 2-tuples to pass to 'grouped' is
> much like following a decorate-sort-undecorate pattern when sorting, or
> something similar when using 'min' or 'max'. Passing an iterable of
> items and optionally a key function is simpler, IMHO.
It should certainly be an option, but I don't think it
should be the only one. Like with map() vs. comprehensions,
sometimes one way is more convenient, sometimes the other.
--
Greg
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