Did zip ever used to fail with 0 arguments?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:49:15 -0400, Michael Lamparski wrote:

>>>> list(zip())
> []
> 
> I'm not sure why, but I really could've sworn this used to produce
> something like:
> 
>     TypeError: zip requires at least one argument

No, you are correct, but you have to go all the way back to Python 2.3 to 
see that behaviour:

https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#zip

New in version 2.0.

Changed in version 2.4: Formerly, zip() required at least one argument 
and zip() raised a TypeError instead of returning an empty list.




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