5.16.3 Recipes

def take(n, seq):
    return list(islice(seq, n))

def enumerate(iterable):
    return izip(count(), iterable)

def tabulate(function):
    "Return function(0), function(1), ..."
    return imap(function, count())

def iteritems(mapping):
    return izip(mapping.iterkeys(), mapping.itervalues())

def nth(iterable, n):
    "Returns the nth item"
    return list(islice(iterable, n, n+1))

def all(seq, pred=bool):
    "Returns True if pred(x) is True for every element in the iterable"
    for elem in ifilterfalse(pred, seq):
        return False
    return True

def any(seq, pred=bool):
    "Returns True if pred(x) is True for at least one element in the iterable"
    for elem in ifilter(pred, seq):
        return True
    return False

def no(seq, pred=bool):
    "Returns True if pred(x) is False for every element in the iterable"
    for elem in ifilter(pred, seq):
        return False
    return True

def quantify(seq, pred=bool):
    "Count how many times the predicate is True in the sequence"
    return sum(imap(pred, seq))

def padnone(seq):
    """Returns the sequence elements and then returns None indefinitely.

    Useful for emulating the behavior of the built-in map() function.
    """
    return chain(seq, repeat(None))

def ncycles(seq, n):
    "Returns the sequence elements n times"
    return chain(*repeat(seq, n))

def dotproduct(vec1, vec2):
    return sum(imap(operator.mul, vec1, vec2))

def flatten(listOfLists):
    return list(chain(*listOfLists))

def repeatfunc(func, times=None, *args):
    """Repeat calls to func with specified arguments.
    
    Example:  repeatfunc(random.random)
    """
    if times is None:
        return starmap(func, repeat(args))
    else:
        return starmap(func, repeat(args, times))

def pairwise(iterable):
    "s -> (s0,s1), (s1,s2), (s2, s3), ..."
    a, b = tee(iterable)
    try:
        b.next()
    except StopIteration:
        pass
    return izip(a, b)