permuting several lists (was Re: [Python-Dev] zip() and list-comprehension with commas)
Ka-Ping Yee
pingster@ilm.com
Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:31:01 -0700 (PDT)
tuples(), lists(), dict(), and indices() look pretty generally useful
to me. I agree that they look like good candidates for builtins.
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> irange(object[,indices])
> Builds a tuple of tuples (index, object[index]). If a sequence
> indices is given, the indices are read from it. If not, then
> the index sequence defaults to trange(len(object)).
This one in particular looks really fabulous. +1 to put this in builtins.
In order of usefulness (just imho of course):
irange +1
tuples +0.5
indices +0.5
dict +0
lists +0
-- ?!ng