Suggestion: PEP for popping slices from lists

[Nicholas Cole]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Neatu Ovidiu <neatuovi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, August 8, 2013 4:08:13 PM UTC+3, Nicholas wrote:
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> > > > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Neatu Ovidiu <neat... at gmail.com>
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> > > > > Does it occur often enough that you cannot afford a two-liner like
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> > > > The possible cases I can think of would be better served with list
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> > > This can be useful for doing all kinds of basic stuff. For example if
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> > > jobs = ['job1', 'job2', 'job3', 'job4', 'job5', 'job6', 'job7',
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> > > while jobs:
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> > >     print(jobs.pop_slice(0,4))
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> > > should output
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> > The idea "popped" in my mind while thinking about this question.
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18121416/right-split-a-string-into-groups-of-3/18122084
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> > Still seems a bit like a solution looking for a problem to me.
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> > Why would you want to take four items at a time for a job from an
> arbitrary part of a list?  I agree splitting a string into groups of three
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> You are perfectly right. But I looked at it more like an improvement in
> the style of writing solutions and also a natural option because slices are
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I wasn't knocking it.  I was just trying to think it through.
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