But you care about your input, you can do so by setting strict=True (if that's the road we go down), and unlike what others have said, the IDE I use (pycharm) would tell me that flag exists as I type "zip" and so I'd be more likely to use it than if it was in itertools/...
On Tue, 5 May 2020, 16:41 Rhodri James, <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote: > On 05/05/2020 13:53, Henk-Jaap Wagenaar wrote: > > Brandt's example with ast in the stdlib I think is a pretty good example > of > > this. > > > > On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 13:27, Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> On 05/05/2020 13:12, Henk-Jaap Wagenaar wrote: > >>> A function that is a "safer" version in some "edge case" (not extra > >>> functionality but better error handling basically) but that does > >> otherwise > >>> work as expected is not something one will search for automatically. > This > >>> is zip versus zip-with-strict-true. > >> > >> I'm sorry, I don't buy it. This isn't an edge case, it's all about > >> whether you care about what your input is. In that sense, it's exactly > >> like the relationship between zip and zip_longest. > > Interesting, because I'd call it a counterexample to your point. The > bug's authors should have cared about their input, but didn't. > > -- > Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd >
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