proposal: concatenation of iterators
Andrew Koenig
ark at research.att.com
Mon Aug 12 11:56:05 EDT 2002
Paul> It would sure be useful sometimes to be able to say
Paul> a = iter((2, 3, 4))
Paul> b = iter((5, 6, 7))
Paul> for x in a + b: # concatenate two iterators
Paul> print x,
Paul> and get:
Paul> 2 3 4 5 6 7
Paul> The implementation is obvious: a+b would just be a generator that
Paul> cycles through a and then b. Easy enough to code up with new-style
Paul> classes, but it seems natural enough that it should be built into
Paul> normal iterators.
Paul> Any thoughts? Is there already some simple way to do this?
def concat(a, b):
for x in a: yield x
for x in b: yield x
So I guess the question is whether you want to include __add__ and
__radd__ in the iterator protocol, or whether you want to make built-in
+ capable of detecting reliably whether its operands are iterators.
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Andrew Koenig, ark at research.att.com, http://www.research.att.com/info/ark
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