zip broken?

[Steven Taschuk]

Quoth Marek "Baczek" Baczyñski:
> I found a behaviour of zip() which I don't like -- it hangs on
> infinite generators. [...]

Well, yes.  zip() returns a list; obviously it must gather all the
items and put them in the list before returning it.  Calling it
"broken" because it can't build an infinite list is a bit silly.

If you want a zip which returns an iterator (and which can be used
with infinite sequences), then see itertools.izip (new in Python
2.3).

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Steven Taschuk                                     staschuk at telusplanet.net
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