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Re: Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path

From Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de>
Subject Re: Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path
Date 2012-07-20 09:35 +0200
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Larry.Martell@gmail.com wrote:

> It seems that if you do a list(group) you have consumed the list. This
> screwed me up for a while, and seems very counter-intuitive.

Many itertools functions work that way. It allows you to iterate over the 
items even if there is more data than fits into memory. 
If you need to keep all items and are sure that your computer can cope with 
them at once you can always throw in a

group = list(group)

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Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-07-18 15:20 -0700
  Re: Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-18 15:49 -0700
    Re: Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-07-19 12:00 -0700
      Re: Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-19 12:43 -0700
        Re: Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path "Larry.Martell@gmail.com" <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2012-07-19 18:01 -0700
          Re: Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-07-20 09:35 +0200
          Re: Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-20 00:51 -0700
          Re: Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2012-07-20 09:37 +0100
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      Re: Finding duplicate file names and modifying them based on elements of the path Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-07-19 12:56 -0700
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