Me:
>> Could make it one line shorter with
>
>> from itertools import chain, izip, repeat
>> def fillzip(*seqs):
>> def done_iter(done=[len(seqs)]):
>> done[0] -= 1
>> if not done[0]:
>> return []
>> return repeat(None)
>> seqs = [chain(seq, done_iter()) for seq in seqs]
>> return izip(*seqs)
Peter Otten:
> that won't work because done_iter() is now no longer a generator.
> In effect you just say
>
> seqs = [chain(seq, repeat(None)) for seq in seqs[:-1]] + [chain(seq[-1],
> [])]
It does work - I tested it. The trick is that izip takes iter()
of the terms passed into it. iter([]) -> an empty iterator and
iter(repeat(None)) -> the repeat(None) itself.
'Course then the name should be changed.
Andrew
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