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

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:40:10 +1200 (NZST)

barry@zope.com (Barry A. Warsaw):

I'd much rather see a patch that just changed zip() to be an iterator instead of adding an iterzip().

Wouldn't it be better as a lazy sequence a la xrange() that produces an iterator, rather than being an iterator itself?

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