diff Python/bltinmodule.c @ 30037:0504ba8efbb6 legacy-trunk

As discussed on python-dev, changed builtin.zip() to handle zero arguments by returning an empty list instead of raising a TypeError.
author Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
date Sat, 02 Aug 2003 07:42:57 +0000
parents d3297e298211
children 9f53e53f3880
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--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c	Fri Aug 01 14:20:02 2003 +0000
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c	Sat Aug 02 07:42:57 2003 +0000
@@ -1916,11 +1916,9 @@
 	PyObject *itlist;  /* tuple of iterators */
 	int len;	   /* guess at result length */
 
-	if (itemsize < 1) {
-		PyErr_SetString(PyExc_TypeError,
-				"zip() requires at least one sequence");
-		return NULL;
-	}
+	if (itemsize == 0)
+		return PyList_New(0);
+
 	/* args must be a tuple */
 	assert(PyTuple_Check(args));