On 15 December 2017 at 10:40, Xen wrote:
>
> Zipping by definition produces a list of tuples
No it's not.
That's how it was defined in python 2, yes. The definition changed for
3. This is _more_ friendly, because in 2 you could very easily
inadvertently use up a lot more memory than you were wan
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 03:38:20AM +0100, Xen wrote:
> Colin Watson schreef op 09-12-2017 13:51:
> > Even as somebody generally very sympathetic to the needs of
> > localisation, I've got this wrong because Python 2 had just too many
> > ways to make mistakes in this area.
>
> So you are basically
I am just posting this so I don't have to save the text.
2.7: type(zip(["a","b"], ["c","d"]))
3 : type(zip(["a","b"], ["c","d"]))
3 : zip(["a","b"], ["c","d"])
2.7: zip(["a","b"], ["c","d"])
[('a', 'c'), ('b', 'd')]
3 : list(zip(["a","b"], ["c","d"]))
[('a', 'c
Daniel Watkins schreef op 15-12-2017 0:05:
On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 11:45:23PM +0100, Xen wrote:
The move towards Python 3 was forced, it didn't come natural for
anyone.
Nope, I have preferred Python 3 since ~3.3, and the transition has
happened over _more than a decade_.
So you waited till 3
