zip broken?

[Alexander Schmolck]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> writes:

> Marek "Baczek" Baczyñski wrote:
> 
> > I found a behaviour of zip() which I don't like -- it hangs on
> > infinite generators. Consider this code:
> 
> zip only works on finite sequences -- if you think about it, it has to;

Not true, only one of the sequences has to be finite.

>>> def yes():
...     while 1: yield 'yes'
...
>>> zip(yes(), range(3))
[('yes', 0), ('yes', 1), ('yes', 2)]


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