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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex index e09de7e..86b8528 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex @@ -477,6 +477,14 @@ the existing '\%s' format style, which inserts the \function{str()} of its argument. For example, \code{'\%r \%s' \% ('abc', 'abc')} returns a string containing \verb|'abc' abc|. +A new built-in, \function{zip(\var{seq1}, \var{seq2}, ...)}, has been +added. \function{zip()} returns a list of tuples where each tuple +contains the i-th element from each of the argument sequences. The +difference between \function{zip()} and \code{map(None, \var{seq1}, +\var{seq2})} is that \function{map()} raises an error if the sequences +aren't all of the same length, while \function{zip()} truncates the +returned list to the length of the shortest argument sequence. + The \function{int()} and \function{long()} functions now accept an optional ``base'' parameter when the first argument is a string. \code{int('123', 10)} returns 123, while \code{int('123', 16)} returns |