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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 29 Apr 2002 14:15:57 -0400

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 strongly suggest sticking to the status quo. There are more important fish to fry.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)