[Python-Dev] Proposal for a new itertools function: iwindow

[Aahz]

On Thu, May 25, 2006, Torsten Marek wrote:
>
> Some open question remain:
> - should iwindow return lists or tuples?
> - what happens if the length of the iterable is smaller than the window size,
> and no padding is specified? Is this an error? Should the generator return no
> value at all or one window that is too small?

You should probably try this idea out on comp.lang.python; if there is
approval, you'll probably need to write a PEP because of these issues.
Note that my guess is that the complexity of the issues relative to the
benefit means that BDFL will probably veto it.

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