Brandt's example with ast in the stdlib I think is a pretty good example of
this.

On Tue, 5 May 2020 at 13:27, Rhodri James <rho...@kynesim.co.uk> wrote:

> On 05/05/2020 13:12, Henk-Jaap Wagenaar wrote:
> > A function that is a "safer" version in some "edge case" (not extra
> > functionality but better error handling basically) but that does
> otherwise
> > work as expected is not something one will search for automatically. This
> > is zip versus zip-with-strict-true.
>
> I'm sorry, I don't buy it.  This isn't an edge case, it's all about
> whether you care about what your input is.  In that sense, it's exactly
> like the relationship between zip and zip_longest.
>
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