le will be advanced and its items will be cached until they are used by the child iterables. This may require significant storage. By default, attempting to select a bucket to which no items belong will exhaust the iterable and cache all values. If you specify a *validator* function, selected buckets will instead be checked against it. >>> from itertools import count >>> it = count(1, 2) # Infinite sequence of odd numbers >>> key = lambda x: x % 10 # Bucket by last digit >>> validator = lambda x: x in {1, 3, 5, 7, 9} # Odd digits only >>> s = bucket(it, key=key, validator=validator) >>> 2 in s False >>> list(s[2]) [] Nc