Proposed new collection methods

[Christopher Subich]

Robert Kern wrote:
> Jeff Schwab wrote:
>> Why are you retarded?  Isn't the above code O(n)?
>>
>> Forgive me for not understanding, I'm still awfully new to Python 
>> (having come from Perl & C++), and I didn't see an explanation in the 
>> FAQ.

> (s for s in iter(self) is test(s)) is a generator expression. It is 
> roughly equivalent to
[snip]
> That implementation does indeed return as soon as it locates the first 
> item, so yes, I was being retarded.

Thank you for the best programming-language related laugh I've had 
today. :)  I know just the kind of synapse-misfires that lead to 
completely obvious, yet also completely wrong conclusions like that -- 
I've done well more than my own share.

For the grandparent poster: generators and its baby brother generator 
expressions are the kind of really neat feature that you're never told 
about in CS101.  Generators themselves are relatively well-covered in 
the Python documentation, which should serve as a decent introduction to 
the topic.