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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 20:03:54 +0200

raymond wrote:

The real issue is which ONE of the following poisons are you most willing to swallow: 1. Forgo iterzip's speed/space improvements 2. Grow the number of builtins by one 3. Deprecate and/or relocate one of: zip, reduce, input, apply, oct 4. Change the behavior of zip to return an iterator (breaking some code)

I vote for either #2 or #3.

here's item 5:

  1. Put it in a suitable extension module (e.g. raymondTools), ship it outside python, let it be "out in the wild" for some suitable time, show that a considerable number of real users are using it in real life (and that you're writing real stuff yourself, and just not con- stantly arguing to change the language just because you can), and add it to the library if/when the time is right.

I vote for #5.

'terziparare'

does that mean "false dilemma", or is it just a cool-sounding googlewhack?