[Python-ideas] Include partitioning in itertools

[Brendan Barnwell]

On 2015-11-01 17:58, David Mertz wrote:
> Oh, yeah... I see what you are asking for isn't quite the same thing as
> power set.  But still, it's not something you can do in finite time with
> infinite iterators (nor in tractable time with *large* iterators).  So
> `itertools` isn't where it belongs.

	I don't think that reasoning is sound.  Itertools already includes 
several combinatoric generators like permutations and combinations, 
which aren't computable for infinite iterators and which take 
intractable time for large finite iterators.

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