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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2013-05-06 02:45:42 (GMT)
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Issue 17862: Improve the signature of itertools grouper() recipe.
Putting *n* after the *iterable* matches the signature of other itertools and recipes. Also, it reads better. Suggested by Ezio Melotti.
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@@ -732,9 +732,9 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
next(b, None)
return izip(a, b)
- def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None):
+ def grouper(iterable, n, fillvalue=None):
"Collect data into fixed-length chunks or blocks"
- # grouper(3, 'ABCDEFG', 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx
+ # grouper('ABCDEFG', 3, 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx
args = [iter(iterable)] * n
return izip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)