"RH" == Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> writes:
RH> I started down this road, by checking code in the Vaults of RH> Parnassus on the assumption that zip() is rarely used outside RH> a for-loop. What may be the killer is the examples of zip() RH> in Python books which demonstrate a stand-alone zip() RH> returning a list -- in some ways, textbook examples are just RH> as important as in-field code. RH> I will write-up a PEP to see if the world cares. For all I RH> know, I may be the only who uses zip() throughout my code. RH> Zip is just new enough that it might not be too late to change RH> it to an iterator. The question is how the zip() list is used. E.g. if it just ends up being the source of a for-loop sequence, then it makes little difference in practice. RH> Does anyone know of an automated what that I can scan a large RH> body of published Python code. I would want some real usage RH> statistics in a PEP but hate pulling modules down one at a RH> time and grepping them. No, but it would be a really cool tool. And if it's available via cgi or some other commonly available process, Mark Hammond could add it to his neat Mozilla sidebar. Wild thought: write a cron script which does a cvs update every hour, and runs Tools/scripts/eptags.py over the standard library. Then front a simple TAGS file searcher with cgi. Then maybe we can put it up on python.org's cgi-bin directory. -Barry