[Python-Dev] iterzip() (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:04:45 -0400

[Barry]

I'd much rather see a patch that just changed zip() to be an iterator instead of adding an iterzip(). I doubt that much in-field code would break because of it (but write the PEP to find out. ;).

You're brave. Changing something incompatibly that's been in the language since 2.1? I wish you luck though -- zip() really should have been an interator.

GvR> I wish. Since they were there first, it's hard to get rid of GvR> them. (If you're truly masochist, write a PEP and post it to GvR> c.l.py to find out how hard. :-)

The PEP would have to specify a migration plan, i.e. the builtins are identical to the functional module versions, and would a deprecation schedule, etc.

I wasn't serious. There's no way we can deprecate any builtin before Python 3.

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