[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : (snip) > couldn't you just do something like > > if len(array1) is not len(array2):
*never* use the identity operator to test equality ! The fact that CPython memoize small integers is an implementation detail, *not* a part of the language specification. > if len(array1) < len(array2): > max_length = len(array2) - len(array1) > array1.extend([None for i in xrange(0, max_length)]) > elif len(array1) > len(array2): > max_length = len(array1) - len(array2) > array2.extend([None for i in xrange(0, max_length)]) Never heard of the builtin max() function ?-) def pad(*lists, **kw): padding = kw.get('padding', None) lists_lens = [len(alist) for alist in lists] padlen = max(lists_lens) return [ alist + ([padding] * (padlen - list_len)) for list_len, alist in zip(lists_lens, lists) ] for i in zip(*pad(range(3), range(5, 10))): print i Now there are very certainly smart solutions using itertools, but the one I cooked is way too ugly so I'll leave this to itertools masters !-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list