"Nick Coghlan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Using zip(*[iter(l)]*N) or zip(*(iter(l),)*N) simply extends the above to the > general case.
Clearly true. But can you please go into much more detail for a newbie? I see that [iter(l)]*N produces an N element list with each element being the same iterator object, but after that http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/lib/built-in-funcs.html just didn't get me there. Thanks, Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list