[Python-3000] have zip() raise exception for sequences of different lengths (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu Aug 31 05:01:04 CEST 2006


Actually given Raymond's preferences I take it back

On 8/30/06, Ron Adam <rrr at ronadam.com> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Perhaps a compromise could be to add a keyword parameter to request > such an exception? (We could even add three options: truncate, pad, > error, with truncate being the default, and pad being the old map() > and filter() behavior.) Maybe it can be done with just two optional keywords.

If 'match' is True, raise an error if iterables are mismatched. if a 'pad' is specified then pad, else truncate. The current truncating behavior would be the default. Ron


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