zip() function troubles

[Istvan Albert]

On Jul 27, 2:18 pm, Raymond Hettinger <pyt... at rcn.com> wrote:

>> What was really surprising is that it works
>> with no issues up until 1 million items"

later editing made the sentence more difficult to read
I should have said: "What was really surprising is that zip works
with no issues up until 1 million items"

It was the zip function (and the garbage collection that it repeatedly
triggers) that cause the problem

best,

Istvan