zip broken?

[Erik Max Francis]

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;
it's a standalone function (i.e., not a generator itself), so it has to
finish what it's doing before it returns anything.  And since it needs
to read in the whole sequence to rearrange it, it must only work on
finite sequences.

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