Give zip() the same guarantee as izip() for left-to-right evaluation.

d6e72c39 · Raymond Hettinger · df9769ca · d6e72c39
Commit d6e72c39 authored Jan 22, 2008 by Raymond Hettinger
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@@ -1285,6 +1285,10 @@ available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
   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