"Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, as I understand it, in Python 3000, zip will basically be replaced with izip, meaning that instead of returning a list, it will return an iterator.
I think it worth repeating that Python 3 is at yet something of a pipedream, as indicated by the joke name Python 3000 (that also being in part a satire on Windows 2000, and the like).
True, true. And worth repeating.
So, while Guido has said he would like to make Python iterator-oriented in the way that it used to be list-oriented, nothing is set in stone, certainly not the details.
Right, though my understanding of PEP 3000[1] is that though "Python 3000" may never exist, the PEP is there as a road-map of where Python as a language would like to go. I guess the point of my question is to find out if this kind of nice interaction of *args and iterators is something that's in the road-map. If it is, then maybe there are parts of it that could be implemented in a way that's backwards compatible, even if the full system wouldn't be available for some time. (Perhaps something along the lines of "from __future__ import iter_args".)
Steve
[1] http://www.python.org/peps/pep-3000.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
