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ehmatthes, 5 hours ago to python

TIL how to use itertools.dropwhile() to get all lines from a file after a specific line. I always used to write my own loop to solve this problem.

I'm curious, have you heard of dropwhile()? Have you used it?

#Python

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paarth, 2 hours ago

@AlSweigart @ehmatthes itertools and functools take the crown for each being parts of the #python standard library that are grossly underused. They solve so, so many common programming patterns in a way that is measurably more performant than other solutions.

You want to have a for loop within a for loop? You can use itertools.product instead!
You want memoization of a function/instance property? Just use functools.cache, or functools.cached_property respectively!

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