Development Status
- 5 - Production/Stable
Intended Audience
- Developers
Natural Language
- English
License
- OSI Approved :: MIT License
Programming Language
- Python :: 2
- Python :: 2.6
- Python :: 2.7
- Python :: 3
- Python :: 3.2
Topic
- Software Development :: Libraries
I love itertools; it’s one of the most beautiful, composable standard libs. Whenever I have an iteration problem, there’s almost always an itertools routine that fits it perfectly. Sometimes, however, neither itertools nor the recipes included in its docs do quite what I need.
Here I’ve collected several routines I’ve reached for but not found. Since they are deceptively tricky to get right, I’ve wrapped them up into a library. We’ve also included implementations of the recipes from the itertools documentation. Enjoy! Any additions are welcome; just file a pull request.
Full Documentation
Please see http://packages.python.org/more-itertools/api.html for the list of routines.
Version History
- 2.2
Added iterate and with_iter. (Thanks, abarnert!)
- 2.1
Added (tested!) implementations of the recipes from the itertools documentation. (Thanks, Chris Lonnen!)
Added ilen. (Thanks for the inspiration, Matt Basta!)
- 2.0
chunked now returns lists rather than tuples. After all, they’re homogeneous. This slightly backward-incompatible change is the reason for the major version bump.
Added @consumer.
Improved test machinery.
- 1.1
Added first function.
Added Python 3 support.
Added a default arg to peekable.peek().
Noted how to easily test whether a peekable iterator is exhausted.
Rewrote documentation.
- 1.0
Initial release, with collate, peekable, and chunked. Could really use better docs.