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| From | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> |
| Subject | Re: itertools doc example "consume" |
| Date | Fri, 8 Mar 2013 21:43:21 +0000 (UTC) |
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Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly <at> gmail.com> writes: > Depending on your Python version lst is either a range object or a > list, neither of which is an iterator. If you pass to consume an > iterable object that is not an iterator, it will implicitly obtain an > iterator for it, consume from the iterator, and then discard the > iterator, with no effect on the original object. > > In general the itertools functions will work equally well on iterators > and other iterables, but consume is special in that what it does is > only relevant to iterators. Thanks for the explanation. I clearly still need to grapple with this stuff a bit... Skip
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