On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Barry A. Warsaw wrote: [On the builtin that resembles lambda *args: map(None, *args)]
High bit: Guido strongly prefers zip() as the name of the built-in. All the suggestions so far have pluses and minuses, and in the absence of a clear winner, he'd just as soon go with the Haskell name. I agree.
Please see the new reference implementation, which includes a __len__() method, and the discussion of the rejected elaborations. There's still the open issue of what zip(sequence_a) should return.
I'm +1 on that. One thing that bugs me is that we're adding a builtin type. Why not stick with the Python implementation? -- Moshe Zadka <moshez@math.huji.ac.il> There is no GOD but Python, and HTTP is its prophet. http://advogato.org/person/moshez