Jack Diederich wrote:
itertools to iter transition, huh? I slipped that one in, I mentioned
it to Raymond at PyCon and he didn't flinch. It would be nice not to
have to sprinkle 'import itertools as it' in code. iter could also
become a type wrapper instead of a function, so an iter instance could
be a wrapper that figures out whether to call .next or __getitem__
depending on it's argument.
for item in iter(mylist).im ap:
print item
or
for item in iter.imap(mylis t):
print item
Very cool idea. I think the transition from
itertools.XXX(i terable, *args, **kwargs)
to
iter.XXX(iterab le, *args, **kwargs)
ought to be pretty easy. The transition from here to
iter(iterable). XXX(*args, **kwargs)
seems like it might be more complicated though -- iter would have to
return a proxy object instead of the object returned by __iter__[1]. I
guess it already does that for objects that support only the __getitem__
protocol though, so maybe it's not so bad...
STeVe
[1] And you'd probably also want to special-case this so that if iter()
was called on an object that's already an instance of iter, that the
object itself was returned, not a proxy. 21  2183 
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:28:29AM -0700, Steven Bethard wrote: Jack Diederich wrote:
itertools to iter transition, huh? I slipped that one in, I mentioned
it to Raymond at PyCon and he didn't flinch. It would be nice not to
have to sprinkle 'import itertools as it' in code. iter could also
become a type wrapper instead of a function, so an iter instance could
be a wrapper that figures out whether to call .next or __getitem__
depending on it's argument.
for item in iter(mylist).im ap:
print item
or
for item in iter.imap(mylis t):
print item
Very cool idea. I think the transition from
itertools.XXX(i terable, *args, **kwargs)
to
iter.XXX(iterab le, *args, **kwargs)
ought to be pretty easy. The transition from here to
iter(iterable). XXX(*args, **kwargs)
seems like it might be more complicated though -- iter would have to
return a proxy object instead of the object returned by __iter__[1]. I
guess it already does that for objects that support only the __getitem__
protocol though, so maybe it's not so bad...
I only included making iter a type to make it more symmetric with str
being a type. iter is currently a function, as a practical matter I wouldn't
mind if it doubled as a namespace but that might make others flinch.
[1] And you'd probably also want to special-case this so that if iter()
was called on an object that's already an instance of iter, that the
object itself was returned, not a proxy.
In article <ma************ *************** **********@pyth on.org>,
Jack Diederich <ja**@performan cedrivers.com> wrote: I only included making iter a type to make it more symmetric with str
being a type. iter is currently a function, as a practical matter I wouldn't
mind if it doubled as a namespace but that might make others flinch.
iter having the attributes currently residing as methods in itertools
sounds just fine to me.
I really don't like iter as a type instead of a function, though. It
sounds like a cool idea at first glance, but then you think about it and
realize that (unlike what happens with any class name) iter(x) is almost
never going to return an object of that type.
--
David Eppstein
Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
[Jack Diederich] > itertools to iter transition, huh? I slipped that one in, I mentioned
> it to Raymond at PyCon and he didn't flinch. It would be nice not to
> have to sprinkle 'import itertools as it' in code. iter could also
> become a type wrapper instead of a function, so an iter instance could
> be a wrapper that figures out whether to call .next or __getitem__
> depending on it's argument.
> for item in iter(mylist).im ap:
> print item
> or
> for item in iter.imap(mylis t):
> print item
[Steven Bethard] Very cool idea. I think the transition from
itertools.XXX(i terable, *args, **kwargs)
to
iter.XXX(iterab le, *args, **kwargs)
ought to be pretty easy.
Just to make sure you guys can live with your proposed syntax, trying using it
for a month or so and report back on whether the experience was pleasant. Try
dropping the following into your setup.py
def wrapiter():
import __builtin__, itertools
orig = __builtin__.ite r
def iter(*args):
return orig(*args)
for name in ('__doc__', '__name__'):
setattr(iter, name, getattr(orig, name))
vars(iter).upda te(vars(itertoo ls))
__builtin__.ite r = iter
wrapiter()
If the experience works out, then all you're left with is the trivial matter of
convincing Guido that function attributes are a sure cure for the burden of
typing import statements.
Raymond Hettinger
>>>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Hettinger <vz******@veriz on.net> writes:
Raymond> If the experience works out, then all you're left with is
Raymond> the trivial matter of convincing Guido that function
Raymond> attributes are a sure cure for the burden of typing
Raymond> import statements.
For one thing, it would make it harder to find the functions from the
docs. It's easy to find the doc for 'itertools', but iter object
methods would require browsing that infamous Chapter 2 of the
documentation.. .
Apart from that, I don't really see the advantage in moving away from
itertools.
--
Ville Vainio http://tinyurl.com/2prnb
Ville Vainio wrote: >>"Raymon d" == Raymond Hettinger <vz******@veriz on.net> writes:
Raymond> If the experience works out, then all you're left with is
Raymond> the trivial matter of convincing Guido that function
Raymond> attributes are a sure cure for the burden of typing
Raymond> import statements.
For one thing, it would make it harder to find the functions from the
docs. It's easy to find the doc for 'itertools', but iter object
methods would require browsing that infamous Chapter 2 of the
documentation.. .
Well, it would only make them as hard to find as, say, dict.fromkeys,
which is probably the best parallel here. Of course iter would have to
be documented as a builtin type. I don't find the argument "builtin
type methods are hard to find" convincing -- the solution here is to fix
the documentation, not refuse to add builtin types.
Apart from that, I don't really see the advantage in moving away from
itertools.
True it's not a huge win. But I'd argue that for the same reasons that
dict.fromkeys is a dict classmethod, the itertools methods could be iter
classmethods (or staticmethods). The basic idea being that it's nice to
place the methods associated with a type in that type's definiton. The
parallel's a little weaker here because calling iter doesn't always
produce objects of type iter:
py> class C(object):
.... def __iter__(self):
.... yield 1
....
py> iter(C())
<generator object at 0x011805A8>
But note that iter does produce 'iterator' objects for the old
__getitem__ protocol:
py> class C(object):
.... def __getitem__(sel f, index):
.... if index > 5:
.... raise IndexError
.... return index
....
py> iter(C())
<iterator object at 0x01162EF0>
I guess the real questions are[1]:
* How much does iter feel like a type?
* How closely are the itertools functions associated with iter?
STeVe
[1] There's also the question of how much you believe in OO tenets like
"functions closely associated with a type should be members of that type"...
Steven Bethard wrote: Ville Vainio wrote:
>>> "Raymond" == Raymond Hettinger <vz******@veriz on.net> writes:
Raymond> If the experience works out, then all you're left with is
Raymond> the trivial matter of convincing Guido that function
Raymond> attributes are a sure cure for the burden of typing
Raymond> import statements.
For one thing, it would make it harder to find the functions from the
docs. It's easy to find the doc for 'itertools', but iter object
methods would require browsing that infamous Chapter 2 of the
documentation.. .
Well, it would only make them as hard to find as, say, dict.fromkeys,
which is probably the best parallel here. Of course iter would have to
be documented as a builtin type. I don't find the argument "builtin
type methods are hard to find" convincing -- the solution here is to fix
the documentation, not refuse to add builtin types.
Apart from that, I don't really see the advantage in moving away from
itertools.
True it's not a huge win. But I'd argue that for the same reasons that
dict.fromkeys is a dict classmethod, the itertools methods could be iter
classmethods (or staticmethods). The basic idea being that it's nice to
place the methods associated with a type in that type's definiton. The
parallel's a little weaker here because calling iter doesn't always
produce objects of type iter:
py> class C(object):
... def __iter__(self):
... yield 1
...
py> iter(C())
<generator object at 0x011805A8>
But note that iter does produce 'iterator' objects for the old
__getitem__ protocol:
py> class C(object):
... def __getitem__(sel f, index):
... if index > 5:
... raise IndexError
... return index
...
py> iter(C())
<iterator object at 0x01162EF0>
I guess the real questions are[1]:
* How much does iter feel like a type?
* How closely are the itertools functions associated with iter?
STeVe
[1] There's also the question of how much you believe in OO tenets like
"functions closely associated with a type should be members of that
type"...
While we're on the topic, what do you think of having unary, non-summary
builtins automatically map themselves when called with an iterable that would
otherwise be an illegal argument:
e.g.,
int(iterable) -> (int(i) for i in iterable)
ord(iterable) -> (ord(i) for i in iterable)
This would be unambiguous, I think, in the cases of bool, int, callable, chr,
float, hex, id, long, oct, ord, vars...
It would shorten the common cases of:
for char in somestring:
ordchar = ord(char)
# do something with ordchar, but not char
to
for ordchar in ord(somestring) :
...
It would not work for summarizing functions or those that can accept an iterable
today e.g., len, repr
Michael
"Steven Bethard" <st************ @gmail.com> wrote:
[snip]
I guess the real questions are[1]:
* How much does iter feel like a type?
* How closely are the itertools functions associated with iter?
STeVe
[1] There's also the question of how much you believe in OO tenets like
"functions closely associated with a type should be members of that type"...
I would answer positively for both: iter does feel like a type conceptually and (most, if not all)
itertools would be suitable methods for such a type. Here I am referring to 'type' more as an
interface (or protocol; i'm not sure of the difference) rather than a concrete class, so whether the
result of iter is an iterator or a generator object is of little importance as long as it works as
expected (that it, whether it makes calls to next() or __getitem__() becomes a hidden implementation
detail).
If iter was a type, it would also be neat to replace some itertool callables with special methods,
as it has been mentioned in another thread ( http://tinyurl.com/6mmmf), so that:
iter(x)[a:b:c] := itertools.islic e(iter(x),a,b,c )
iter(x) + iter(y) := itertools.chain (iter(x), iter(y))
iter(x) * 3 := itertools.chain (* itertools.tee(i ter(x), 3))
George
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 12:38:42PM +0300, Ville Vainio wrote: >> "Raymond" == Raymond Hettinger <vz******@veriz on.net> writes:
Raymond> If the experience works out, then all you're left with is
Raymond> the trivial matter of convincing Guido that function
Raymond> attributes are a sure cure for the burden of typing
Raymond> import statements.
For one thing, it would make it harder to find the functions from the
docs. It's easy to find the doc for 'itertools', but iter object
methods would require browsing that infamous Chapter 2 of the
documentation.. .
Apart from that, I don't really see the advantage in moving away from
itertools.
I only use itertools when I have to currently, which isn't necessarily
bad (premature optimization etc) but I do use lists when I just need an
iterator - simply because 'list()' is easier to type than
'^<space><home> ^n^nimport itertools as it<CR>^x^x' (emacsen to mark HERE,
jump to the top, import itertools, and jump back). If itertools methods
were handier I'd use them when I just want to iterate. As an anecdote
I use generator comprehensions[1] more often than list comprehensions.
I'll give the builtin manipulations a try but since I have to deal with
many machines I can't promise to flex it much.
-jack
[1] aside, I didn't care too much about upgrading machines 2.2 => 2.3, but
when 2.4 came along with set as a builtin and generator comprehensions it
was compelling.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:32:33 -0800, Michael Spencer <ma**@telcopart ners.com> wrote:
[...] While we're on the topic, what do you think of having unary, non-summary
builtins automatically map themselves when called with an iterable that would
otherwise be an illegal argument:
That last "otherwise" is pretty important for strings as in int('1234') ;-)
e.g.,
int(iterable ) -> (int(i) for i in iterable)
ord(iterable ) -> (ord(i) for i in iterable)
This would be unambiguous, I think, in the cases of bool, int, callable, chr,
float, hex, id, long, oct, ord, vars...
It would shorten the common cases of:
for char in somestring:
ordchar = ord(char)
# do something with ordchar, but not char
But wouldn't you really currently write the "->" form from above? I.e.,
for ordchar in (ord(c) for c in somestring):
...
to compare withto
for ordchar in ord(somestring) :
...
So it's not _that_ much shorter ;-)
It would not work for summarizing functions or those that can accept an iterable
today e.g., len, repr
I like concise expression, so I'm willing to try it. I guess it would be enough
to override __builtins__ to get a taste, e.g., (not thought through): class itint(int):
... oldint = __builtins__.in t
... def __new__(cls, arg):
... try: return cls.oldint(arg)
... except (TypeError, ValueError):
... oi = cls.oldint
... return (oi(item) for item in arg)
... __builtins__.in t = itint
int('1234')
1234 for x in int('1 23 456'.split()): print x,
...
1 23 456 for x in int(range(1,8,2 )): print x,
...
1 3 5 7 for x in int('123x'): print x,
...
1 2 3
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
File "<stdin>", line 7, in <generator expression>
ValueError: invalid literal for int(): x
Hm, ... ;-)
Regards,
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