Add an itertools recipe showing how to use t.__copy__().

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Raymond Hettinger 2013-03-30 23:37:57 -07:00
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@ -828,6 +828,18 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
indices = sorted(random.randrange(n) for i in xrange(r))
return tuple(pool[i] for i in indices)
def tee_lookahead(t, i):
"""Inspect the i-th upcomping value from a tee object
while leaving the tee object at its current position.
Raise an IndexError if the underlying iterator doesn't
have enough values.
"""
for value in islice(t.__copy__(), i, None):
return value
raise IndexError(i)
Note, many of the above recipes can be optimized by replacing global lookups
with local variables defined as default values. For example, the
*dotproduct* recipe can be written as::