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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2008-01-22 20:18:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2008-01-22 20:18:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 9ed5b57fe21fe4c853a18c905071c3314cdd6492 (patch) | |
| tree | a93734266bfa07e86ab9fc2d6e969c3b49f97577 | |
| parent | d02fc48f67b140e8605a1c9e986f78c8bb8df531 (diff) | |
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Give zip() the same guarantee as izip() for left-to-right evaluation.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 227b0fc..44eb5d8 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1285,6 +1285,10 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. sequence argument, it returns a list of 1-tuples. With no arguments, it returns an empty list. + The left-to-right evaluation order of the iterables is guaranteed. This + makes possible an idiom for clustering a data series into n-length groups + using ``zip(*[iter(s)]*n)``. + .. versionadded:: 2.0 .. versionchanged:: 2.4 |