itertools comments [Was: Re: RELEASED: Python 2.3a2]

[Michael Hudson]

"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <me at privacy.net> writes:

> Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> > My only misgiving about the naming convention is that
> > islice() can be read as is-lice instead of i-slice.
> 
> No, you'll have to import that from the new bug-detecting
> module being developed for 2.4, which it is rumoured will
> also provide isaphid(), istermite(), isvarroamite() and
> ispaintedapplemoth().

I comprehensively misread this post and thought one of those was
"isterminating()" :-)

Cheers,
M.

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