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[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

In <pan.2007.06.06.02.42.47 at REMOVE.THIS.cybersource.com.au>, Steven
D'Aprano wrote:

> Is there a general Pythonic idiom for efficiently walking over part of a 
> sequence without copying it first? Should there be?

What about using `itertools.islice()`:

for e in islice(a, 4):
    pass

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch