A missing iterator on itertools module?

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 28/03/2024 om 17:45 schreef ast via Python-list:
> Hello
>
> Suppose I have these 3 strings:
>
> s1 = "AZERTY"
> s2 = "QSDFGH"
> s3 = "WXCVBN"
>
> and I need an itertor who delivers
>
> A Q W Z S C E D C ...
>
> I didn't found anything in itertools to do the job.

The documentation mentions a roundrobin recipe.
>
> So I came up with this solution:
>
>
> list(chain.from_iterable(zip("AZERTY", "QSDFGH", "WXCVBN")))
>
> ['A', 'Q', 'W', 'Z', 'S', 'X', 'E', 'D', 'C', 'R', 'F', 'V', 'T', 'G', 
> 'B', 'Y', 'H', 'N']

But if your strings are not equal, this will only produce a partial result.