Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists
Neatu Ovidiu
neatuovi at gmail.com
Thu Aug 8 07:44:05 EDT 2013
On Thursday, August 8, 2013 2:12:53 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Neatu Ovidiu <neat... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > But what's your use case?
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> > Does it occur often enough that you cannot afford a two-liner like
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> I think uses cases are plenty.
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> The possible cases I can think of would be better served with list comprehensions (what you seem to want is to create lists based on other lists) - but maybe I'm missing something. Could we have one example?
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This can be useful for doing all kinds of basic stuff. For example if you wanted to take 4 items of a list at at a time, do something with them and then update the list.
jobs = ['job1', 'job2', 'job3', 'job4', 'job5', 'job6', 'job7', 'job8', 'job9', 'job10']
while jobs:
print(jobs.pop_slice(0,4))
should output
'job1', 'job2', 'job3', 'job4'
'job5', 'job6', 'job7', 'job8'
'job9', 'job10'
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