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Author rhettinger
Recipients Lucas Wiman, Sumudu.Fernando, eric.araujo, falsetru, nneonneo, rhettinger, terry.reedy, tim.peters, yegle
Date 2016-09-17.22:06:47
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> What's the major objection to making all of the itertools functions "maximally lazy"?

It complicates the code and provides nearly zero benefit in practical use cases of the combinatoric functions.
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