On Wed, 18 Mar 2015 13:25:45 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wednesday 18 March 2015 12:14, Dan Sommers wrote:
>> According to the article itself, "it relies in an implementation >> detail (the order the zip function iterates over the arrays) to >> work." Then again, the article also points to the official docs that >> says that this implementation detail is guaranteed. > That means it isn't an implementation detail, it's interface ... Agreed. I only called it an implementation detail to preserve (or to create) continuity. > "This relies on an implementation detail that len() of a list returns > the number of items of the list. P.S. the documentation guarantees > that len() of a list will return the number of items of the list." > The technique being used neither brilliant nor insane ... Insightful? Idiomatic? Pythonic? It's certainly fairly obvious once you've seen it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
