Another itertool function?

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Magnus Lie Hetland:
  [...]
> def weave(*iterables):
>     iterables = map(iter, iterables)
>     while iterables:
>         for it in iterables[:]:
>             try:
>                 yield it.next()
>             except StopIteration:
>                 iterables.remove(it)
> 
> Another possible name (which is a bit more unwieldy) would be
> 'roundrobin'. Another one still is iweave (to keep the naming
> convention, even though here there is no clash).

I wrote an equivalent function a while back, too; I called it
"interleave".

(I can't remember what I needed it for, oddly.)

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