[Python-checkins] r54464 - python/branches/release25-maint/Doc/lib/libitertools.tex

Wed Mar 21 15:50:27 CET 2007

On 3/20/07, raymond.hettinger <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
>> Author: raymond.hettinger
> Date: Tue Mar 20 22:12:23 2007
> New Revision: 54464
>> Modified:
> python/branches/release25-maint/Doc/lib/libitertools.tex
> Log:
> Add new example
>> Modified: python/branches/release25-maint/Doc/lib/libitertools.tex
>> ==============================================================================
> --- python/branches/release25-maint/Doc/lib/libitertools.tex (original)
> +++ python/branches/release25-maint/Doc/lib/libitertools.tex Tue Mar 20
> 22:12:23 2007
> @@ -539,5 +539,8 @@
> "grouper(3, 'abcdefg', 'x') --> ('a','b','c'), ('d','e','f'),
> ('g','x','x')"
> return izip(*[chain(iterable, repeat(padvalue, n-1))]*n)
>> +def reverse_map(d):
> + "Return a new dict with swapped keys and values"
> + return dict(izip(d.itervalues(), d))

Should we be advocating code that (rather implicitly) relies on a dict not
changing ordering between calls (not to mention different calls)? (It
strikes me as rather bad style, and fragile to boot, but the example isn't
as readable without it :)
-- 
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