itertools.groupby

[paul]

Steve Howell schrieb:
> --- Steve Howell <showell30 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> --- 7stud <bbxx789_05ss at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Bejeezus.  The description of groupby in the docs
>> is
>>> a poster child
>>> for why the docs need user comments.  
> 
> Regarding the pitfalls of groupby in general (even
> assuming we had better documentation), I invite people
> to view the following posting that I made on
> python-ideas, entitled "SQL-like way to manipulate
> Python data structures":
> 
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2007-May/000807.html
> 
> In the thread, I don't really make a proposal, so much
> as a problem statement, but my radical idea is that
> lists of dictionaries fit the relational model
> perfectly, so why not allow some kind of native SQL
> syntax in Python that allows you to manipulate those
> data structures more naturally?

LINQ?

cheers
  Paul