On Jun 8, 8:56 am, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 7, 8:22�pm, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Mensanator wrote: > > > What I DID say was that how the builtins actually > > > work should be understood and it APPEARED that the > > > OP didn't understand that. Maybe he understood that > > > all along but his example betrayed no evidence of > > > that understanding. > > > Well, the truth is that I know zip truncates to the shorter of the two > > arguments, > > Ok, sorry I thought otherwise. > > > and also in my case the two arguments would always be the > > same length. > > Yes, because you're controlling the source code. > But since lists are mutable, source code literals > don't always control the length of the list.
Since when source code literals ever control the length of a list? What controls the length of the list is the semantic meaning of the list, in some cases it just makes no sense that the list would ever have different length. (snip) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
