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Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 10:15:35 -0700
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On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:
> class rpt:
>   def __init__ (self, value, rpt):
>     self.value = value; self.rpt = rpt
>   def __call__ (self):
>     for i in range (self.rpt):
>       yield self.value

Note that this class is just reimplementing itertools.repeat.

>>> list(itertools.repeat('hello', 5))
['hello', 'hello', 'hello', 'hello', 'hello']