Message 94939 - Python tracker

Message94939

Author	belopolsky
Recipients	belopolsky, benjamin.peterson, rhettinger, wrichert
Date	2009-11-05.18:57:33
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I don't want to pollute python-dev with more hopeless ideas, but I wonder if itertools could grow an efficient C-implemented def first(collection): return next(iter(collection)) On the other hand, it probably belongs to recipes more than stdlib. This is not really an iterator tool after all.

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I don't want to pollute python-dev with more hopeless ideas, but I wonder 
if itertools could grow an efficient C-implemented

def first(collection):
   return next(iter(collection))

On the other hand, it probably belongs to recipes more than stdlib.  This 
is not really an iterator tool after all.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-11-05 18:57:35	belopolsky	set	recipients: + belopolsky, rhettinger, benjamin.peterson, wrichert
2009-11-05 18:57:35	belopolsky	set	messageid: <1257447455.52.0.29105584299.issue7212@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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