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Fri Nov 21 14:53:41 CET 2014 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-November/137009.html

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:47 AM, Raymond Hettinger
<raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, the proposal breaks a reasonably useful pattern of calling
> next(subiterator) inside a generator and letting the generator terminate
> when the data stream  ends.  Here is an example that I have taught for
> years:
>
>     def izip(iterable1, iterable2):
>         it1 = iter(iterable1)
>         it2 = iter(iterable2)
>         while True:
>             v1 = next(it1)
>             v2 = next(it2)
>             yield v1, v2

Is it obvious to every user that this will consume an element from
it1, then silently terminate if it2 no longer has any content?

ChrisA

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Change StopIteration handling inside generators