map(None, North, South, East West) does exactly what you want:
>>> North=['Bill', 'Bob', 'Sue', 'Mary']
>>> South=['Tim', 'Tom', 'Jim', 'John', 'Carl', 'Evan', 'Rich']
>>> map(None, North, South)
[('Bill', 'Tim'), ('Bob', 'Tom'), ('Sue', 'Jim'), ('Mary', 'John'), (None, 'Carl'), (None, 'Evan'),
(None, 'Rich')]
> That being, both of these functions can truncate the data, depending on > certain conditions
>>I don't think that is true for map(); what conditions are you thinking of?
Well, I've tried duplicating what I was seeing last night when I posted the message, and it's not happening the same now.
Maybe I was up too later working on this problem...
What I *thought* I was seeing was map() would return a list of a certain length when I called it like this map(None, North, South)
and returned a list of a different length when I called it like this map(None, South, North)
However, trying that now basically returns the a list that appears to be the same length, for both calls.
I think this will work after all. I'll add it to my program .
Thanks for your quick replies
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