itertools.filterfalse - what is it good for

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Dear all,
can anybody point out a situation where you really need itertools.filterfalse() ?
So far, I couldn't think of a case where you couldn't replace it with a
generator expression/if combination.
e.g.,

a=filterfalse(lambda x: x%2, range(1,101))
b=(i for i in range(1,101) if not i % 2)

do not return the same object type, but otherwise are achieving the same thing.
What am I missing here? For sure filterfalse exists for a reason?

Best,
Wolfgang

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itertools.filterfalse - what is it good for Wolfgang Maier <wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de> - 2013-03-08 16:45 +0000
  Re: itertools.filterfalse - what is it good for Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-03-08 17:02 +0000
  Re: itertools.filterfalse - what is it good for Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2013-03-09 12:30 -0800
  Re: itertools.filterfalse - what is it good for Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2013-03-09 12:30 -0800

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