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Misc cleanups and wording improvements for the itertools docs #119626

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Tighten the wording for permutations(). Add links.
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Tighten the wording for combinations(). Add links.
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Tighten the wording for combinations_with_replacement().
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Tighen wording for islice()
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Sync table examples with main docs
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Improve readability of the amortization example
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Improve accumulate() docs
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Improve wording for compress()
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Tighter wording for cycle()
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Improve wording for dropwhile()
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Misc wording tweaks
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Tweak starmap() wording
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Improve wording for compress()
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rhettinger committed May 27, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ The following module functions all construct and return iterators. Some provide
streams of infinite length, so they should only be accessed by functions or
loops that truncate the stream.


.. function:: accumulate(iterable[, function, *, initial=None])

Make an iterator that returns accumulated sums or accumulated
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.. function:: compress(data, selectors)

Make an iterator that filters elements from *data* returning only those that
have a corresponding element in *selectors* is true.
Stops when either the *data* or *selectors* iterables have been exhausted.
Roughly equivalent to::
Make an iterator that returns elements from *data* where the
corresponding element in *selectors* is true. Stops when either the
*data* or *selectors* iterables have been exhausted. Roughly
equivalent to::

def compress(data, selectors):
# compress('ABCDEF', [1,0,1,0,1,1]) → A C E F
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