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Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile

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Subject Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile
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On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> takewhile mines for gold at the start of a sequence, dropwhile drops the dross at the start of a sequence.

When you're using both over the same sequence and with the same
condition, it seems odd that you need to iterate over it twice.
Perhaps a partitioning iterator would be cleaner - something like
this:

def partitionwhile(predicate, iterable):
    iterable = iter(iterable)
    while True:
        val = next(iterable)
        if not predicate(val): break
        yield val
    raise StopIteration # Signal the end of Phase 1
    for val in iterable: yield val # or just "yield from iterable", I think

Only the cold hard boot of reality just stomped out the spark of an
idea. Once StopIteration has been raised, that's it, there's no
"resuming" the iterator. Is there a way around that? Is there a clean
way to say "Done for now, but next time you ask, there'll be more"?

I tested it on Python 3.2 (yeah, time I upgraded, I know).

ChrisA

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Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 05:57 -0800
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-04 14:23 +0000
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 06:47 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-04 15:17 +0000
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 15:31 +0100
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 07:24 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 22:08 +0100
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 07:24 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-04 18:26 +0000
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2012-12-04 18:18 +0100
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile DJC <djc@news.invalid> - 2012-12-04 18:28 +0000
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2012-12-04 19:48 +0100
        Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 12:37 -0700
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2012-12-04 21:33 +0100
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-12-04 21:13 +0000
        Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-04 20:17 +0000
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-04 15:44 -0500
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 17:17 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 00:45 +1100
        Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 14:34 +0000
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 08:33 -0700
            Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 16:11 +0000
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-12-05 15:32 +0000
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 09:16 -0700
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-05 17:57 +0000
    Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-04 17:17 -0800
      Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 13:29 +0000
        Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 09:04 -0800
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-05 17:57 +0000
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 18:16 +0000
            Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Nick Mellor <thebalancepro@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 11:01 -0800
              Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-05 20:13 +0000
              Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-05 22:36 +0100
                Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2012-12-06 13:06 +0000
                Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-06 15:12 +0100
          Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Alexander Blinne <news@blinne.net> - 2012-12-06 14:40 +0100
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-12-04 17:21 -0500
  Re: Good use for itertools.dropwhile and itertools.takewhile Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-12-06 13:29 -0800

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