for loop possible enhancement

[Bernhard Herzog]

"Andrew Dalke" <dalke at acm.org> writes:

> bob van der Poel wrote:
> > I think that as a writer in the pep suggested, that
> >
> > for a in L1, b in L2:
> >
> >would be much nicer. But, if the python gods can't do it that way, guess
> >zip() will have to do.
> 
> I believe one of the points against it was based on user testing.
> I know there was testing since I answered a questionnaire :)

The main problem if this particular version is that it's already valid
Python:

>>> L1 = [1,2,3]
>>> L2 = [5,6,7]
>>> b = 1
>>> for a in L1, b in L2:
..     print a
.. 
[1, 2, 3]
0
>>> 


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