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Author	hynek
Recipients	hynek, loewis, lukasz.langa, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date	2013-08-04.14:23:42
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Message-id	<EAE0DFF2-2FF2-4186-8661-C080BCC895CE@ox.cx>
In-reply-to	<1375622981.3.0.387078682534.issue18652@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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> def coalesce(iterable, default=None, pred=None): > return next(filter(pred, iterable), default) > > Are you sure you want add this one-line function to the itertools module rather then to recipes? Well, for many – including me – it would mean to have this one-line function in every other project or a PyPI dependency. I’m certain there are other short but useful functions in the stdlib.

> def coalesce(iterable, default=None, pred=None):
>        return next(filter(pred, iterable), default)
> 
> Are you sure you want add this one-line function to the itertools module rather then to recipes?

Well, for many – including me – it would mean to have this one-line function in every other project or a PyPI dependency.  I’m certain there are other short but useful functions in the stdlib.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2013-08-04 14:23:42	hynek	set	recipients: + hynek, loewis, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, ncoghlan, lukasz.langa, serhiy.storchaka
2013-08-04 14:23:42	hynek	link	issue18652 messages
2013-08-04 14:23:42	hynek	create