[Python-Dev] PEP 201 - Parallel iteration

[Paul Prescod]

"Barry A. Warsaw" wrote:
> 
>...
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> The second possibility is that user code must `appear' to special case
> the situation when the number of sequences is exactly 1.  I.e.
> 
>     >>> for (i,) in zip((1, 2, 3)):
> 
> instead of the more natural (because it's less to type and because of
> the map() heritage):
> 
>     >>> for i in zip((1, 2, 3)):

Why are you using zip in this case? If you *know* that you are going to
get back 1-tuples then you must know that the input is a single list
(i.e. you aren't using "apply"). So why are you using zip at all?

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