diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/itertools.rst | 35 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst index a98b2b6..a978c1a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst +++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst @@ -666,9 +666,6 @@ which incur interpreter overhead. "Return first n items of the iterable as a list" return list(islice(iterable, n)) - def enumerate(iterable, start=0): - return izip(count(start), iterable) - def tabulate(function, start=0): "Return function(0), function(1), ..." return imap(function, count(start)) @@ -747,10 +744,9 @@ which incur interpreter overhead. seen = set() seen_add = seen.add if key is None: - for element in iterable: - if element not in seen: - seen_add(element) - yield element + for element in ifilterfalse(seen.__contains__, iterable): + seen_add(element) + yield element else: for element in iterable: k = key(element) @@ -763,3 +759,28 @@ which incur interpreter overhead. # unique_justseen('AAAABBBCCDAABBB') --> A B C D A B # unique_justseen('ABBCcAD', str.lower) --> A B C A D return imap(next, imap(itemgetter(1), groupby(iterable, key))) + + def iter_except(func, exception, first=None): + """ Call a function repeatedly until an exception is raised. + + Converts a call-until-exception interface to an iterator interface. + Like __builtin__.iter(func, sentinel) but uses an exception instead + of a sentinel to end the loop. + + Examples: + bsddbiter = iter_except(db.next, bsddb.error, db.first) + heapiter = iter_except(functools.partial(heappop, h), IndexError) + dictiter = iter_except(d.popitem, KeyError) + dequeiter = iter_except(d.popleft, IndexError) + queueiter = iter_except(q.get_nowait, Queue.Empty) + setiter = iter_except(s.pop, KeyError) + + """ + try: + if first is not None: + yield first() + while 1: + yield func() + except exception: + pass + |