"Carl Banks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > Fear not, people: just as the BDFL does not indiscriminately add > features, also he does not indiscriminately remove them. zip, though > it feels a little exotic, is very useful and serves a purpose that no > language feature serves(*), so rest assured it's not going to > disappear. > > (*) Excepting izip, of course, which is more useful than zip and > probably should also be a builtin.
One of the envisioned changes in Python 3000 (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-3000.html) is to return iterators instead of lists in several contexts (e.g. dict.keys(), dict.items()), so perhaps zip will stand for what itertools.izip is today. George -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
