[Duncan Booth]
> >>> aList = ['a', 1, 'b', 2, 'c', 3]
> >>> it = iter(aList)
> >>> zip(it, it)
>[('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3)]
[Alan Isaac]
> That behavior is currently an accident.
>http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&atid=105470&func=detail&aid=1121416
[Bengt Richter]
> That says
> """
> ii. The other problem is easier to explain by example.
> Let it=iter([1,2,3,4]).
> What is the result of zip(*[it]*2)?
> The current answer is: [(1,2),(3,4)],
> but it is impossible to determine this from the docs,
> which would allow [(1,3),(2,4)] instead (or indeed
> other possibilities).
> """
> IMO left->right is useful enough to warrant making it defined
> behaviour
And in fact, it is defined behavior for itertools.izip() [1].
I don't see why it's such a big deal to make it defined behavior for
zip() too.
STeVe
[1]http://docs.python.org/lib/itertools-functions.html#l2h-1392
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