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diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst index 80fe34d..a088683 100644 --- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst +++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst @@ -259,22 +259,9 @@ loops that truncate the stream. makes possible an idiom for clustering a data series into n-length groups using ``izip(*[iter(s)]*n)``. -<<<<<<< .working - Note, when :func:`izip` is used with unequal length inputs, subsequent - iteration over the longer iterables cannot reliably be continued after - :func:`izip` terminates. Potentially, up to one entry will be missing from - each of the left-over iterables. This occurs because a value is fetched from - each iterator in- turn, but the process ends when one of the iterators - terminates. This leaves the last fetched values in limbo (they cannot be - returned in a final, incomplete tuple and they are cannot be pushed back into - the iterator for retrieval with ``next(it)``). In general, :func:`izip` - should only be used with unequal length inputs when you don't care about - trailing, unmatched values from the longer iterables. -======= :func:`izip` should only be used with unequal length inputs when you don't care about trailing, unmatched values from the longer iterables. If those values are important, use :func:`izip_longest` instead. ->>>>>>> .merge-right.r60208 .. function:: izip_longest(*iterables[, fillvalue]) |