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Originally Posted by chaley
Good idea. I have used the calibre built-in version of this function many times. Are you using it to do the implementation? It is calibre.db.cache.get_categories. It supports a list of book ids, does caching, and has several other optimizations. It returns a dict
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Yes. I am using this for the function. I wouldn't have done it without the get_categories().
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Originally Posted by chaley
I can do this. The big question is how? What I would prefer to do is extend the language for the for statement, making its grammar
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'for' varname 'in' expression ['separator' expression] ':'
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I leave this to you. What you suggests would work nicely for me.
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Originally Posted by chaley
Specifying the separator is optional. OK with you?
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Definitely. It is better not to force people to specify the separator every time unnecessarily.
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Originally Posted by chaley
However, I realize that this use of list_union is rather esoteric, so I will add the function
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list_remove_duplicates(list, sep)
If you think that list_uniq(), or perhaps list_unique(), is a better name than I can use that. |
Yours seems more descriptive and better.
