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| From | Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: What does zip mean? |
| Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:04:30 +1300 |
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Grant Edwards wrote: > What the zipper on a coat does is convert two separate sequences into > a single sequence where the members alternate between the two input > sequences. True, the zipper analogy isn't quite accurate. It's hard to think of an equally concise and suggestive name, however. -- Greg
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What does zip mean? satishmlmlml@gmail.com - 2014-11-09 02:44 -0800
Re: What does zip mean? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-09 21:58 +1100
Re: What does zip mean? milos zorica <miloshzorica@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 08:06 -0300
Re: What does zip mean? giacomo boffi <giacomo_boffi@inwind.it> - 2014-11-10 17:48 +0100
Re: What does zip mean? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-11-10 17:19 +0000
Re: What does zip mean? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-11-11 10:04 +1300
Re: What does zip mean? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-11-11 07:36 +1100
Re: What does zip mean? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-11-10 19:39 -0500
Re: What does zip mean? giacomo boffi <pecore@pascolo.net> - 2014-11-13 23:10 +0100
Re: What does zip mean? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-14 22:06 +1100
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