[New-bugs-announce] [issue10067] itertools' docs put izip_longest in the "terminating on the shortest input sequence" section

[Daniel Abel]

New submission from Daniel Abel <abeld at hal.elte.hu>:

Both the 2.x and 3.x documentation for itertools has izip_longest (zip_longest for 3.x)  in the "Iterators terminating on the shortest input sequence" section. However, according to izip_longest's documentation, it terminates when the _longest_ iterator is exhausted.

Possible fixes might be:
- put izip_longest in a new "Iterators terminating on the longest input sequence" section
- rename section to "Iterators terminating on one of the input sequences"

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
messages: 118407
nosy: abeld, docs at python
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: itertools' docs put izip_longest in the "terminating on the shortest input sequence" section
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3

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