On Mon, 09 May 2016 00:22:46 -0400, DFS wrote:
> python 2.7.11 docs: "The returned list is truncated in length to the
> length of the shortest argument sequence."
>
>
> a = ['who','let','the']
> b = ['dogs','out?']
> c = zip(a,b)
>
> print c
> [('who', 'dogs'), ('let', 'out?')]
>
>
> Wouldn't it be better to return an empty element than silently kill your
> data?
>
> [('who', 'dogs'), ('let', 'out?'), ('the', '')]
>>> dfs_zip([1, 2, 3], [4, 5])
[(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, '')]
No, that's not much better, thanks.
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