Lisp mentality vs. Python mentality

[namekuseijin]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> namekuseijin <namekuseijin.nospam at gmail.com> writes:
>>       return (len(a) == len(b)) and not any(not comp(*t) for t in
>> (zip(a, b)))
>>
>> plus the zip call enclosed in parentheses got turned into an iterator.
> 
> zip in python 2.x always makes a list.  You want itertools.izip.
> You could also use itertools.starmap.

hmm, somehow I thought putting any sequence into parenthesis would 
always yield a generator...