[issue19202] Additions to function docs: reduce and itertools.

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 3b6401c27e39 by Raymond Hettinger in branch '3.3': Issue #19202: Add cross-reference and a rough code equivalent http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3b6401c27e39 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue19202] Additions to function docs: reduce and itertools.

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Thanks Georg. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

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[issue19202] Additions to function docs: reduce and itertools.

Georg Brandl added the comment: I agree. Will prepare a patch to the reduce() doc. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mail

[issue19202] Additions to function docs: reduce and itertools.

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: The reference from accumulate() to reduce() may be useful. I'm opposed to most of the other equivalents and cross-references. They bloat the docs without adding value. Terry is right in saying that the equivalent for enumerate() is better as a basic loop

[issue19202] Additions to function docs: reduce and itertools.

Georg Brandl added the comment: What do you think of the two references added to the itertools docs? -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Pyt

[issue19202] Additions to function docs: reduce and itertools.

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: Almost all of these make the docs worse and should not be applied. The purpose of the "equivalent" code is simply to make the documentation clearer, not to show all the ways it could have been done. I do think Georg's reduce() equivalent should be added be

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[issue19202] Additions to function docs: reduce and itertools.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I think the reduce equivalent given by Georg would be excellent. I think the enumerate equivalent already given is fine because I think equivalents should use basic syntax (for loops), not something that might be more obscure. -- nosy: +terry.reedy ti