Brandt's example with ast in the stdlib I think is a pretty good example of this. On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 13:27, Rhodri James <rhodri@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:
On 05/05/2020 13:12, Henk-Jaap Wagenaar wrote:
A function that is a "safer" version in some "edge case" (not extra functionality but better error handling basically) but that does otherwise work as expected is not something one will search for automatically. This is zip versus zip-with-strict-true.
I'm sorry, I don't buy it. This isn't an edge case, it's all about whether you care about what your input is. In that sense, it's exactly like the relationship between zip and zip_longest.
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