On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:26:45 +0100, "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Duncan Booth wrote: > >> That's funny, I thought your subject line said 'list of tuples'. I'll >> answer the question in the subject rather than the question in the body: >> >> >>> aList = ['a', 1, 'b', 2, 'c', 3] >> >>> it = iter(aList) >> >>> zip(it, it) >> [('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3)] > >yesterday, we got locals()["_[1]"]. and now this ? > I don't really think those are comparable. >is "relying on undefined behaviour" perhaps the new black ? Is it really undefined? If so, IMO it should be defined to do what it apparently does. > >and people are impressed? it's like my old Z80 days, when >some folks thought it was truly amazing that call(11) printed >the raw contents of the entire memory to the screen... > You really don't think it was cool? Or could be well defined? ;-) Hm, actually, something tells me I've seen some variation of this before, but I can't think of the context off hand. Regards, Bengt Richter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list