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| author | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2000-08-03 15:46:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org> | 2000-08-03 15:46:17 (GMT) |
| commit | faefa2a885e83774b180da7281d287a0e2bc75b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 27c298d30627974296c6044b97bd6b4c8d261856 /Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex | |
| parent | bd599b5928cda5f3cb04d7c5070d9298101e1592 (diff) | |
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Both PEP 201 Lockstep Iteration and SF patch #101030 have been
accepted by the BDFL.
Added documentation for zip() builtin.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex index 91afe4f..d00df16 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex @@ -703,3 +703,12 @@ them) except when a very large range is used on a memory-starved machine (e.g. MS-DOS) or when all of the range's elements are never used (e.g. when the loop is usually terminated with \keyword{break}). \end{funcdesc} + +\begin{funcdesc}{zip}{seq1\optional{, seq2\optional{, ...}}} +This function returns a list of tuples, where each tuple contains the +i-th element from each of the argument sequences. At least one +sequence is required, otherwise a \exception{TypeError} is raised. +The returned list is truncated in length to the length of the shortest +argument sequence. When the argument sequences are all of the same +length, \function{zip} is similar to \function{map} with an initial +None argument. |