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authorRaymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>2008-01-22 20:18:53 (GMT)
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Give zip() the same guarantee as izip() for left-to-right evaluation.
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@@ -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