On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 2:36 PM Eric Fahlgren <ericfahlgren@gmail.com> wrote:
We've implemented the new zip in our sitecustomize.py, and think the keyword makes it easier. I've instructed our development staff to examine all use of zip as they come across them and add either "strict=True" or "strict=False" when they've determined which is appropriate. Any zip calls without an explicit "strict=" will be deemed "unknown" and requiring further investigation.
That's actually a really nice validation of the choice to use a keyword -- none of the other options debated (which were all variations on "give the alternate behavior a different name") would offer the opportunity to state "I've thought about it and it's definitely okay that the iterables have different lengths at this call site." Sure, in most places this would just look redundant, but in large corporate code bases that's exactly the kind of thing that people like to do. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-c...>