Interesting list() un-optimization

[Terry Reedy]

On 3/7/2013 11:20 AM, Christian Heimes wrote:

> But iterators have a length hint method that are used for some
> optimizations and preallocations, too.

This is easy when the base iterable has a length method, as do range 
objects.

>>>> i = iter(range(10))
>>>> i.__length_hint__()
> 10

And the length_hint can (should be) decremented with each next call.

 >>> next(i); next(i)
0
1
 >>> i.__length_hint__()
8

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy