diff Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex @ 13823:eeed7bc8a283 legacy-trunk

Both PEP 201 Lockstep Iteration and SF patch #101030 have been accepted by the BDFL. Added documentation for zip() builtin.
author Barry Warsaw <barry@python.org>
date Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:46:17 +0000
parents 5dd381aeb23b
children 5136e37ff548
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--- a/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex	Thu Aug 03 15:45:29 2000 +0000
+++ b/Doc/lib/libfuncs.tex	Thu Aug 03 15:46:17 2000 +0000
@@ -703,3 +703,12 @@
 machine (e.g. MS-DOS) or when all of the range's elements are never
 used (e.g. when the loop is usually terminated with \keyword{break}).
 \end{funcdesc}
+
+\begin{funcdesc}{zip}{seq1\optional{, seq2\optional{, ...}}}
+This function returns a list of tuples, where each tuple contains the
+i-th element from each of the argument sequences.  At least one
+sequence is required, otherwise a \exception{TypeError} is raised.
+The returned list is truncated in length to the length of the shortest
+argument sequence.  When the argument sequences are all of the same
+length, \function{zip} is similar to \function{map} with an initial
+None argument.