On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 10:27 AM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > > The only precedent that jumps out for me is itertools.chain() and > itertools.chain.from_iterable(). It's quite likely that something I don't use > much has used the same pattern though. >
(Please don't top-post - you're making it hard to give proper context. Precedent for what?) That's an example of a very common pattern of alternate constructors. So if you want to parallel that with zip, the most logical way would be something like zip.from_same_length_iterables() or some abbreviation. And then zip_longest could become zip.from_iterables_and_fill(). I don't see that this would be an advantage, but hey, it's plausible :) ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/YNY4RKUYU3PTS7Z5NNCJTBB2ZUITSTA6/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
