[Python-Dev] zip() and list-comprehension with commas

[Paul Prescod]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 
>     BAW> Alternatives (as Greg I think brought up): pairwise(), maybe
>     BAW> zipper() for zip() since it's more evocative.
> 
> "zip" already has a lot of compression connotations.  How about "stitch", as
> in "stitch two lists together"?

"Stitch" and "with" are okay, but I'd like to hear someone debunk the
names used today by MAL. They seemed very logical to me. I'd just change
the semantics to be lazy in a couple of cases.

>>> tuple([1,2,3])
(1,2,3)

>>> tuples([1,2,3],[4,5,6])
<tuple generator: ((1,4),(2,5),(3,6)>

>>> list((1,2,3))
[1,2,3]

>>> lists((1,2,3),(4,5,6)) 
<list generator: [1,4],[2,5],[3,6]>

>>> dict([(1,2),(3,4),(5,6)])
{1:2,3:4,5:6}

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