itertoolz 0.5

Relationship to itertools

The itertools package (with an s) is a package in the standard library. It differs from itertoolz (with a z) in the following ways.

• itertools has an s. itertoolz has a z.

• itertools is strictly a library of [streaming algorithms](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streaming_algorithm) while itertoolz accepts functions that require finite iterators.

• itertools changes very slowly and is managed by the official Python community (you submit a PEP). itertoolz is more loose (you submit a pull request)

• itertools is minimal. itertoolz accepts recipes.

Author

[Matthew Rocklin](http://matthewrocklin.com)

LICENSE

New BSD. See [License File](LICENSE.TXT).

Install

itertoolz is on the Python Package Index (PyPi)

pip install itertoolz

or

easy_install itertoolz

or from source

./setup.py install

Dependencies

itertoolz supports Python 2.6+ and Python 3.2+ with a common codebase.

It has no dependencies outside of the standard library.

See Also

• [functoolz](http://github.com/mrocklin/functoolz)

• [classtoolz](http://github.com/mrocklin/classtoolz)