non-copy slices

[tbourden at doc.ic.ac.uk]

Ahhh yes! that's exactly it. Thanks for pointing out!

Themis


On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> tbourden at doc.ic.ac.uk wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was looking for a facility similar to slices in python library that
> would
> > avoid the implicit creation of a new list and copy of elements that is
> the
> > default behaviour. Instead I'd rather have a lazy iteratable object on
> the
> > original sequence. Well, in the end I wrote it myself but I was wondering
> if
> > I missed sth in the library. If I didn't is there a particular reason
> there
> > isn't sth like that? I find it hard to believe that all slice needs have
> > strictly copy semantics.
>
> I suspect that itertools is your friend, specifically itertools.islice
>
> TJG
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