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Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: more-itertools
Version: 8.0.2
Summary: More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools
Home-page: https://github.com/erikrose/more-itertools
Author: Erik Rose
Author-email: erikrose@grinchcentral.com
License: MIT
Keywords: itertools,iterator,iteration,filter,peek,peekable,collate,chunk,chunked
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==============
More Itertools
==============

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Python's ``itertools`` library is a gem - you can compose elegant solutions
for a variety of problems with the functions it provides. In ``more-itertools``
we collect additional building blocks, recipes, and routines for working with
Python iterables.

----

+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Grouping               | `chunked <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.chunked>`_,                                                                                                                        |
|                        | `ichunked <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.ichunked>`_,                                                                                                                      |
|                        | `sliced <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.sliced>`_,                                                                                                                          |
|                        | `distribute <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.distribute>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `divide <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.divide>`_,                                                                                                                          |
|                        | `split_at <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.split_at>`_,                                                                                                                      |
|                        | `split_before <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.split_before>`_,                                                                                                              |
|                        | `split_after <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.split_after>`_,                                                                                                                |
|                        | `split_into <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.split_into>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `split_when <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.split_when>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `bucket <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.bucket>`_,                                                                                                                          |
|                        | `unzip <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.unzip>`_,                                                                                                                            |
|                        | `grouper <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.grouper>`_,                                                                                                                        |
|                        | `partition <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.partition>`_                                                                                                                     |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Lookahead and lookback | `spy <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.spy>`_,                                                                                                                                |
|                        | `peekable <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.peekable>`_,                                                                                                                      |
|                        | `seekable <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.seekable>`_                                                                                                                       |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Windowing              | `windowed <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.windowed>`_,                                                                                                                      |
|                        | `substrings <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.substrings>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `substrings_indexes <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.substrings_indexes>`_,                                                                                                  |
|                        | `stagger <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.stagger>`_,                                                                                                                        |
|                        | `pairwise <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.pairwise>`_                                                                                                                       |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Augmenting             | `count_cycle <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.count_cycle>`_,                                                                                                                |
|                        | `intersperse <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.intersperse>`_,                                                                                                                |
|                        | `padded <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.padded>`_,                                                                                                                          |
|                        | `repeat_last <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.repeat_last>`_,                                                                                                                |
|                        | `adjacent <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.adjacent>`_,                                                                                                                      |
|                        | `groupby_transform <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.groupby_transform>`_,                                                                                                    |
|                        | `padnone <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.padnone>`_,                                                                                                                        |
|                        | `ncycles <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.ncycles>`_                                                                                                                         |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Combining              | `collapse <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.collapse>`_,                                                                                                                      |
|                        | `sort_together <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.sort_together>`_,                                                                                                            |
|                        | `interleave <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.interleave>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `interleave_longest <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.interleave_longest>`_,                                                                                                  |
|                        | `collate <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.collate>`_,                                                                                                                        |
|                        | `zip_offset <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.zip_offset>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `dotproduct <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.dotproduct>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `flatten <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.flatten>`_,                                                                                                                        |
|                        | `roundrobin <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.roundrobin>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `prepend <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.prepend>`_                                                                                                                         |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Summarizing            | `ilen <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.ilen>`_,                                                                                                                              |
|                        | `first <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.first>`_,                                                                                                                            |
|                        | `last <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.last>`_,                                                                                                                              |
|                        | `one <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.one>`_,                                                                                                                                |
|                        | `only <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.only>`_,                                                                                                                              |
|                        | `unique_to_each <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.unique_to_each>`_,                                                                                                          |
|                        | `locate <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.locate>`_,                                                                                                                          |
|                        | `rlocate <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.rlocate>`_,                                                                                                                        |
|                        | `consecutive_groups <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.consecutive_groups>`_,                                                                                                  |
|                        | `exactly_n <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.exactly_n>`_,                                                                                                                    |
|                        | `run_length <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.run_length>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `map_reduce <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.map_reduce>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `all_equal <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.all_equal>`_,                                                                                                                    |
|                        | `first_true <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.first_true>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `nth <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.nth>`_,                                                                                                                                |
|                        | `quantify <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.quantify>`_                                                                                                                       |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Selecting              | `islice_extended <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.islice_extended>`_,                                                                                                        |
|                        | `strip <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.strip>`_,                                                                                                                            |
|                        | `lstrip <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.lstrip>`_,                                                                                                                          |
|                        | `rstrip <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.rstrip>`_,                                                                                                                          |
|                        | `take <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.take>`_,                                                                                                                              |
|                        | `tail <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.tail>`_,                                                                                                                              |
|                        | `unique_everseen <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertoo ls.unique_everseen>`_,                                                                                                       |
|                        | `unique_justseen <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.unique_justseen>`_                                                                                                         |
|                        | `filter_except <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.filter_except>`_                                                                                                             |
|                        | `map_except <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.map_except>`_                                                                                                                   |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Combinatorics          | `distinct_permutations <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.distinct_permutations>`_,                                                                                            |
|                        | `distinct_combinations <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.distinct_combinations>`_,                                                                                            |
|                        | `circular_shifts <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.circular_shifts>`_,                                                                                                        |
|                        | `partitions <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.partitions>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `set_partitions <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.set_partitions>`_,                                                                                                          |
|                        | `powerset <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.powerset>`_,                                                                                                                      |
|                        | `random_product <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.random_product>`_,                                                                                                          |
|                        | `random_permutation <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.random_permutation>`_,                                                                                                  |
|                        | `random_combination <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.random_combination>`_,                                                                                                  |
|                        | `random_combination_with_replacement <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.random_combination_with_replacement>`_,                                                                |
|                        | `nth_combination <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.nth_combination>`_                                                                                                         |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Wrapping               | `always_iterable <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.always_iterable>`_,                                                                                                        |
|                        | `consumer <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.consumer>`_,                                                                                                                      |
|                        | `with_iter <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.with_iter>`_,                                                                                                                    |
|                        | `iter_except <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.iter_except>`_                                                                                                                 |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Others                 | `replace <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.replace>`_,                                                                                                                        |
|                        | `numeric_range <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.numeric_range>`_,                                                                                                            |
|                        | `always_reversible <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.always_reversible>`_,                                                                                                    |
|                        | `side_effect <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.side_effect>`_,                                                                                                                |
|                        | `iterate <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.iterate>`_,                                                                                                                        |
|                        | `difference <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.difference>`_,                                                                                                                  |
|                        | `make_decorator <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.make_decorator>`_,                                                                                                          |
|                        | `SequenceView <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.SequenceView>`_,                                                                                                              |
|                        | `time_limited <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.time_limited>`_,                                                                                                              |
|                        | `consume <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.consume>`_,                                                                                                                        |
|                        | `tabulate <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.tabulate>`_,                                                                                                                      |
|                        | `repeatfunc <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/stable/api.html#more_itertools.repeatfunc>`_                                                                                                                   |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+


Getting started
===============

To get started, install the library with `pip <https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/>`_:

.. code-block:: shell

    pip install more-itertools

The recipes from the `itertools docs <https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools-recipes>`_
are included in the top-level package:

.. code-block:: python

    >>> from more_itertools import flatten
    >>> iterable = [(0, 1), (2, 3)]
    >>> list(flatten(iterable))
    [0, 1, 2, 3]

Several new recipes are available as well:

.. code-block:: python

    >>> from more_itertools import chunked
    >>> iterable = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
    >>> list(chunked(iterable, 3))
    [[0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8]]

    >>> from more_itertools import spy
    >>> iterable = (x * x for x in range(1, 6))
    >>> head, iterable = spy(iterable, n=3)
    >>> list(head)
    [1, 4, 9]
    >>> list(iterable)
    [1, 4, 9, 16, 25]



For the full listing of functions, see the `API documentation <https://more-itertools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html>`_.

Development
===========

``more-itertools`` is maintained by `@erikrose <https://github.com/erikrose>`_
and `@bbayles <https://github.com/bbayles>`_, with help from `many others <https://github.com/erikrose/more-itertools/graphs/contributors>`_.
If you have a problem or suggestion, please file a bug or pull request in this
repository. Thanks for contributing!


Version History
===============


   :noindex:

8.0.2
-----

* Bug fixes
    * The type stub files are now part of the wheel distribution (thanks to keisheiled)

8.0.1
-----

* Bug fixes
    * The type stub files now work for functions imported from the
      root package (thanks to keisheiled)

8.0.0
-----

* New itertools and other additions
    * This library now ships type hints for use with mypy.
      (thanks to ilai-deutel for the implementation, and to gabbard and fmagin for assistance)
    * split_when (thanks to jferard)
    * repeat_last (thanks to d-ryzhikov)

* Changes to existing itertools:
    * The implementation for set_partitions was improved. (thanks to jferard)
    * partition was optimized for expensive predicates. (thanks to stevecj)
    * unique_everseen and groupby_transform were re-factored. (thanks to SergBobrovsky)
    * The implementation for difference was improved. (thanks to Jabbey92)


* Other changes
    * Python 3.4 has reached its end of life and is no longer supported.
    * Python 3.8 is officially supported. (thanks to jdufresne)
    * The ``collate`` function has been deprecated.
      It raises a ``DeprecationWarning`` if used, and will be removed in a future release.
    * one and only now provide more informative error messages. (thanks to gabbard)
    * Unit tests were moved outside of the main package (thanks to jdufresne)
    * Various documentation fixes (thanks to kriomant, gabbard, jdufresne)


7.2.0
-----

* New itertools
    * distinct_combinations
    * set_partitions (thanks to kbarrett)
    * filter_except
    * map_except

7.1.0
-----

* New itertools
    * ichunked (thanks davebelais and youtux)
    * only (thanks jaraco)

* Changes to existing itertools:
    * numeric_range now supports ranges specified by
      ``datetime.datetime`` and ``datetime.timedelta`` objects (thanks to MSeifert04 for tests).
    * difference now supports an *initial* keyword argument.


* Other changes
    * Various documentation fixes (thanks raimon49, pylang)

7.0.0
-----

* New itertools:
    * time_limited
    * partitions (thanks to rominf and Saluev)
    * substrings_indexes (thanks to rominf)

* Changes to existing itertools:
    * collapse now treats ``bytes`` objects the same as ``str`` objects. (thanks to Sweenpet)

The major version update is due to the change in the default behavior of
collapse. It now treats ``bytes`` objects the same as ``str`` objects.
This aligns its behavior with always_iterable.

.. code-block:: python

    >>> from more_itertools import collapse
    >>> iterable = [[1, 2], b'345', [6]]
    >>> print(list(collapse(iterable)))
    [1, 2, b'345', 6]

6.0.0
-----

* Major changes:
    * Python 2.7 is no longer supported. The 5.0.0 release will be the last
      version targeting Python 2.7.
    * All future releases will target the active versions of Python 3.
      As of 2019, those are Python 3.4 and above.
    * The ``six`` library is no longer a dependency.
    * The accumulate function is no longer part of this library. You
      may import a better version from the standard ``itertools`` module.

* Changes to existing itertools:
    * The order of the parameters in grouper have changed to match
      the latest recipe in the itertools documentation. Use of the old order
      will be supported in this release, but emit a  ``DeprecationWarning``.
      The legacy behavior will be dropped in a future release. (thanks to jaraco)
    * distinct_permutations was improved (thanks to jferard - see also `permutations with unique values <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6284396/permutations-with-unique-values>`_ at StackOverflow.)
    * An unused parameter was removed from substrings. (thanks to pylang)

* Other changes:
    * The docs for unique_everseen were improved. (thanks to jferard and MSeifert04)
    * Several Python 2-isms were removed. (thanks to jaraco, MSeifert04, and hugovk)

5.0.0
-----

* New itertools:
    * split_into (thanks to rovyko)
    * unzip (thanks to bmintz)
    * substrings (thanks to pylang)

* Changes to existing itertools:
    * ilen was optimized a bit (thanks to MSeifert04, achampion, and  bmintz)
    * first_true now returns ``None`` by default. This is the reason for the major version bump - see below. (thanks to sk and OJFord)

* Other changes:
   * Some code for old Python versions was removed (thanks to hugovk)
   * Some documentation mistakes were corrected  (thanks to belm0 and hugovk)
   * Tests now run properly on 32-bit versions of Python (thanks to Millak)
   * Newer versions of CPython and PyPy are now tested against

The major version update is due to the change in the default return value of
first_true. It's now ``None``.

.. code-block:: python

    >>> from more_itertools import first_true
    >>> iterable = [0, '', False, [], ()]  # All these are False
    >>> answer = first_true(iterable)
    >>> print(answer)
    None

4.3.0
-----

* New itertools:
    * last (thanks to tmshn)
    * replace (thanks to pylang)
    * rlocate (thanks to jferard and pylang)

* Improvements to existing itertools:
    * locate can now search for multiple items

* Other changes:
   * The docs now include a nice table of tools (thanks MSeifert04)

4.2.0
-----

* New itertools:
    * map_reduce (thanks to pylang)
    * prepend (from the `Python 3.7 docs <https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/itertools.html#itertools-recipes>`_)

* Improvements to existing itertools:
    * bucket now complies with PEP 479 (thanks to irmen)

* Other changes:
   * Python 3.7 is now supported (thanks to irmen)
   * Python 3.3 is no longer supported
   * The test suite no longer requires third-party modules to run
   * The API docs now include links to source code

4.1.0
-----

* New itertools:
    * split_at (thanks to michael-celani)
    * circular_shifts (thanks to hiqua)
    * make_decorator - see the blog post `Yo, I heard you like decorators <https://sites.google.com/site/bbayles/index/decorator_factory>`_
      for a tour (thanks to pylang)
    * always_reversible (thanks to michael-celani)
    * nth_combination (from the `Python 3.7 docs <https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/itertools.html#itertools-recipes>`_)

* Improvements to existing itertools:
    * seekable now has an ``elements`` method to return cached items.
    * The performance tradeoffs between roundrobin and
      interleave_longest are now documented (thanks michael-celani,
      pylang, and MSeifert04)

4.0.1
-----

* No code changes - this release fixes how the docs display on PyPI.

4.0.0
-----

* New itertools:
    * consecutive_groups (Based on the example in the `Python 2.4 docs <https://docs.python.org/release/2.4.4/lib/itertools-example.html>`_)
    * seekable (If you're looking for how to "reset" an iterator,
      you're in luck!)
    * exactly_n (thanks to michael-celani)
    * run_length.encode and run_length.decode
    * difference

* Improvements to existing itertools:
    * The number of items between filler elements in intersperse can
      now be specified (thanks to pylang)
    * distinct_permutations and peekable got some minor
      adjustments (thanks to MSeifert04)
    * always_iterable now returns an iterator object. It also now
      allows different types to be considered iterable (thanks to jaraco)
    * bucket can now limit the keys it stores in memory
    * one now allows for custom exceptions (thanks to kalekundert)

* Other changes:
    * A few typos were fixed (thanks to EdwardBetts)
    * All tests can now be run with ``python setup.py test``

The major version update is due to the change in the return value of always_iterable.
It now always returns iterator objects:

.. code-block:: python

    >>> from more_itertools import always_iterable
    # Non-iterable objects are wrapped with iter(tuple(obj))
    >>> always_iterable(12345)
    <tuple_iterator object at 0x7fb24c9488d0>
    >>> list(always_iterable(12345))
    [12345]
    # Iterable objects are wrapped with iter()
    >>> always_iterable([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
    <list_iterator object at 0x7fb24c948c50>

3.2.0
-----

* New itertools:
    * lstrip, rstrip, and strip
      (thanks to MSeifert04 and pylang)
    * islice_extended
* Improvements to existing itertools:
    * Some bugs with slicing peekable-wrapped iterables were fixed

3.1.0
-----

* New itertools:
    * numeric_range (Thanks to BebeSparkelSparkel and MSeifert04)
    * count_cycle (Thanks to BebeSparkelSparkel)
    * locate (Thanks to pylang and MSeifert04)
* Improvements to existing itertools:
    * A few itertools are now slightly faster due to some function
      optimizations. (Thanks to MSeifert04)
* The docs have been substantially revised with installation notes,
  categories for library functions, links, and more. (Thanks to pylang)


3.0.0
-----

* Removed itertools:
    * ``context`` has been removed due to a design flaw - see below for
      replacement options. (thanks to NeilGirdhar)
* Improvements to existing itertools:
    * ``side_effect`` now supports ``before`` and ``after`` keyword
      arguments. (Thanks to yardsale8)
* PyPy and PyPy3 are now supported.

The major version change is due to the removal of the ``context`` function.
Replace it with standard ``with`` statement context management:

.. code-block:: python

    # Don't use context() anymore
    file_obj = StringIO()
    consume(print(x, file=f) for f in context(file_obj) for x in u'123')

    # Use a with statement instead
    file_obj = StringIO()
    with file_obj as f:
        consume(print(x, file=f) for x in u'123')

2.6.0
-----

* New itertools:
    * ``adjacent`` and ``groupby_transform`` (Thanks to diazona)
    * ``always_iterable`` (Thanks to jaraco)
    * (Removed in 3.0.0) ``context`` (Thanks to yardsale8)
    * ``divide`` (Thanks to mozbhearsum)
* Improvements to existing itertools:
    * ``ilen`` is now slightly faster. (Thanks to wbolster)
    * ``peekable`` can now prepend items to an iterable. (Thanks to diazona)

2.5.0
-----

* New itertools:
    * ``distribute`` (Thanks to mozbhearsum and coady)
    * ``sort_together`` (Thanks to clintval)
    * ``stagger`` and ``zip_offset`` (Thanks to joshbode)
    * ``padded``
* Improvements to existing itertools:
    * ``peekable`` now handles negative indexes and slices with negative
      components properly.
    * ``intersperse`` is now slightly faster. (Thanks to pylang)
    * ``windowed`` now accepts a ``step`` keyword argument.
      (Thanks to pylang)
* Python 3.6 is now supported.

2.4.1
-----

* Move docs 100% to readthedocs.io.

2.4
-----

* New itertools:
    * ``accumulate``, ``all_equal``, ``first_true``, ``partition``, and
      ``tail`` from the itertools documentation.
    * ``bucket`` (Thanks to Rosuav and cvrebert)
    * ``collapse`` (Thanks to abarnet)
    * ``interleave`` and ``interleave_longest`` (Thanks to abarnet)
    * ``side_effect`` (Thanks to nvie)
    * ``sliced`` (Thanks to j4mie and coady)
    * ``split_before`` and ``split_after`` (Thanks to astronouth7303)
    * ``spy`` (Thanks to themiurgo and mathieulongtin)
* Improvements to existing itertools:
    * ``chunked`` is now simpler and more friendly to garbage collection.
      (Contributed by coady, with thanks to piskvorky)
    * ``collate`` now delegates to ``heapq.merge`` when possible.
      (Thanks to kmike and julianpistorius)
    * ``peekable``-wrapped iterables are now indexable and sliceable.
      Iterating through ``peekable``-wrapped iterables is also faster.
    * ``one`` and ``unique_to_each`` have been simplified.
      (Thanks to coady)


2.3
-----

* Added ``one`` from ``jaraco.util.itertools``. (Thanks, jaraco!)
* Added ``distinct_permutations`` and ``unique_to_each``. (Contributed by
  bbayles)
* Added ``windowed``. (Contributed by bbayles, with thanks to buchanae,
  jaraco, and abarnert)
* Simplified the implementation of ``chunked``. (Thanks, nvie!)
* Python 3.5 is now supported. Python 2.6 is no longer supported.
* Python 3 is now supported directly; there is no 2to3 step.

2.2
-----

* Added ``iterate`` and ``with_iter``. (Thanks, abarnert!)

2.1
-----

* Added (tested!) implementations of the recipes from the itertools
  documentation. (Thanks, Chris Lonnen!)
* Added ``ilen``. (Thanks for the inspiration, Matt Basta!)

2.0
-----

* ``chunked`` now returns lists rather than tuples. After all, they're
  homogeneous. This slightly backward-incompatible change is the reason for
  the major version bump.
* Added ``@consumer``.
* Improved test machinery.

1.1
-----

* Added ``first`` function.
* Added Python 3 support.
* Added a default arg to ``peekable.peek()``.
* Noted how to easily test whether a peekable iterator is exhausted.
* Rewrote documentation.

1.0
-----

* Initial release, with ``collate``, ``peekable``, and ``chunked``. Could
  really use better docs.