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Proxy list to a list-returning function

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This small package provides a proxy list to a list-returning function:

>>> from lazylist import LazyList
>>> l = LazyList(lambda: x)
>>> x = [1, 2, 3]
>>> list(l)
[1, 2, 3]

More precisely, view function doesn’t have to return an exact list, but an any squence object e.g. str, tuple:

>>> x = "hello"
>>> list(l)
['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o']

It satisfies collections.abc.Sequence protocol:

>>> from collections import Sequence
>>> isinstance(l, Sequence)
True
>>> l[-1]
'o'
>>> len(l)
5

However, it doesn’t satisfy collections.abc.MutableSequence protocol. In other words, it’s immutable:

>>> from collections import MutableSequence
>>> isinstance(l, MutableSequence)
False
>>> l[0] = 'H'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'LazyList' object does not support item assignment

Distributed under LGPLv3 or higher.

Todos

  • LazySet

  • LazyMap

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