[Python-Dev] PEP 201 - Parallel iteration

[Moshe Zadka]

(assume a = [1, 2, 3])

On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Gordon McMillan wrote:

> How about a fourth: zip(a) is the same as zip(a, []) ?

Huh???????????????????

> Look at it this way: what should zip(a, pad=None) return?

[(1,), (2,), (3,)], of course

> Obviously: [(1, None), (2, None), (3, None)]

Why?


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