zip or marry etc

[Paul Prescod]

Robin Becker wrote:
> 
> I suppose there must be something desperately wrong with using the
> __mul__ for sequences to indicate the set pairwise product. I would
> certainly be for
> 
> x,y in A*B rather than x,y in zip(A,B) or marry(A,B), but since * is the
> obvious operator it must be that someone else has reserved it.

We aren't looking for the set pairwise product (which I am taking as a
synonym for cross-product). We're looking just to pair up elements.

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