[Python-checkins] r60203 - python/trunk/Doc/library/functions.rst

Tue Jan 22 21:18:53 CET 2008

Author: raymond.hettinger
Date: Tue Jan 22 21:18:53 2008
New Revision: 60203
Modified:
 python/trunk/Doc/library/functions.rst
Log:
Give zip() the same guarantee as izip() for left-to-right evaluation.
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/functions.rst
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--- python/trunk/Doc/library/functions.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/library/functions.rst	Tue Jan 22 21:18:53 2008
@@ -1285,6 +1285,10 @@
 sequence argument, it returns a list of 1-tuples. With no arguments, it returns
 an empty list.
 
+ The left-to-right evaluation order of the iterables is guaranteed. This
+ makes possible an idiom for clustering a data series into n-length groups
+ using ``zip(*[iter(s)]*n)``.
+
 .. versionadded:: 2.0
 
 .. versionchanged:: 2.4
