Steven Bethard wrote: >A couple Python-3000 threads [1] [2] have indicated that the most >natural use of zip() is with sequences of the same lengths. I feel >the same way, and run into this all the time. Because the error would >otherwise pass silently, I usually end up adding checks before each >use of zip() to raise an exception if I accidentally pass in sequences >of different lengths. > >Any chance that zip() in Python 3000 could automatically raise an >exception if the sequence lengths are different? If there's really a >need for a zip that just truncates, maybe that could be moved to >itertools? I think the equal-length scenario is dramatically more >common, and keeping that error from passing silently would be a good >thing IMHO. > > > -1 I think this would cause much more harm than good and wreck an otherwise easy-to-understand tool.
Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
