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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2016-04-26 07:10:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2016-04-26 07:10:00 (GMT) |
| commit | ab425aa9d3353a15e2a673eb1af121dcde720a14 (patch) | |
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Issue #16394: Note the tee() pure python equivalent is only a rough approximation.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst index 758e49b..8376f1a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst +++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst @@ -588,7 +588,10 @@ loops that truncate the stream. .. function:: tee(iterable, n=2) - Return *n* independent iterators from a single iterable. Equivalent to:: + Return *n* independent iterators from a single iterable. + + The following Python code helps explain what *tee* does (although the actual + implementation is more complex and uses only a single underlying FIFO queue):: def tee(iterable, n=2): it = iter(iterable) |