>Proposed change:
>
>zip( [iterable, ...])
> This function returns a list of tuples, where the i-th tuple
>contains the i-th element from each of the argument sequences or
>iterables. It is an error if the argument sequences are of different
>lengths...
>
>That seems pretty comparable in complexity to me. Could you explain
>how this makes zip() harder to understand?
>
>
It's a PITA because it precludes all of the use cases whether the inputs
ARE intentionally of different length (like when one argument supplys an
infinite iterator):
for lineno, ts, line in zip(count(1), timestamp(), sys.stdin):
print 'Line %d, Time %s: %s)' % (lineno, ts, line)
Raymond
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