[Python-ideas] itertools.documentation.ncycles is a bit of a sore thumb

[Benjamin Peterson]

Julian Berman <julian at ...> writes:

> 
> The top of the recipe section in the itertools documentation says:
> 
> "The superior memory performance is kept by processing elements one at a time
rather than bringing the
> whole iterable into memory all at once."
> 
> but itertools.ncycles doesn't really. It's one line, so I'll inline it here:

In this case, I think it means that iterable*n is never held all in memory.