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Kirill Smelkov
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Issue #23695: Explain the zip() example for clustering a data series into n-length groups.
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@@ -1492,7 +1492,9 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
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)``.
using ``zip(*[iter(s)]*n)``. This repeats the *same* iterator ``n`` times
so that each output tuple has the result of ``n`` calls to the iterator.
This has the effect of dividing the input into n-length chunks.
:func:`zip` should only be used with unequal length inputs when you don't
care about trailing, unmatched values from the longer iterables. If those
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