itertools suggestion

[Jimmy Retzlaff]

Magnus Lie Hetland (mlh at furu.idi.ntnu.no) wrote:
>Some things that might be useful (with rather arbitrary names)
>
>  iatom(foo)       -- an iterator that returns foo
>  iappend(it, foo) -- an iterator that exhausts it and then returns
>                      foo
>
>The latter could, of course, be achieved with
>
>  chain(it, iatom(foo))
>
>if chain is adopted. (Odd that it is documented but not included... :)
...
>Just a thought, though -- I'm sure there are other ways of doing this
that
>may be prettier...

I would think [foo] would do as well as iatom(foo). If so, then I think
chain(it, [foo]) would make iappend unnecessary.

Jimmy