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It is useful: When iterating over a string in Python (which I hope you agree _is_ useful?), you get that many parts.

• chrismorgan 3y ago
  > When iterating over a string in Python (which I hope you agree _is_ useful?) Not often. There’s almost nothing useful you can correctly do with a sequence of code points.
• masklinn 3y ago
  > It is useful: When iterating over a string in Python (which I hope you agree _is_ useful?), you get that many parts. That’s… not useful? I can’t say I remember ever caring knowing how many items I would be getting during an iteration[0]. If I want to set an iteration limit I can just… do that, using `islice` or some such. [0] in python anyway, in lower level language there can be a utility in order to pre-allocate an output collection
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