Fate of itertools.dropwhile() and itertools.takewhile()

[Raymond Hettinger]

[Michele Simionato]
> in my code
> base I have exactly zero occurrences of takewhile and
> dropwhile, even if I tend to use the itertools quite
> often. That should be telling.

Thanks for the additional empirical evidence.

> I presume you did scans of
> large code bases and you did not find occurrences of
> takewhile and dropwhile, right?

Yes.


Raymond