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Re: What does zip mean?

From Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: What does zip mean?
Date 2014-11-11 10:04 +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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