From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:19:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Alter recipe to show how to call izip_longest() with
X-Git-Tag: v2.6b3~196
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f080e6d7e027c9576814dd57af3122ab2aff7aa9;p=python

Alter recipe to show how to call izip_longest() with
both a keyword argument and star arguments.
---

diff --git a/Doc/library/itertools.rst b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
index 6bda2cfa10..db38e697d7 100644
--- a/Doc/library/itertools.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/itertools.rst
@@ -647,8 +647,7 @@ which incur interpreter overhead.
    def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None):
        "grouper(3, 'ABCDEFG', 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
        args = [iter(iterable)] * n
-       kwds = dict(fillvalue=fillvalue)
-       return izip_longest(*args, **kwds)
+       return izip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)
 
    def roundrobin(*iterables):
        "roundrobin('ABC', 'D', 'EF') --> A D E B F C"
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
index f6174ab63d..6912ac7421 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_itertools.py
@@ -1236,8 +1236,7 @@ Samuele
 >>> def grouper(n, iterable, fillvalue=None):
 ...     "grouper(3, 'ABCDEFG', 'x') --> ABC DEF Gxx"
 ...     args = [iter(iterable)] * n
-...     kwds = dict(fillvalue=fillvalue)
-...     return izip_longest(*args, **kwds)
+...     return izip_longest(fillvalue=fillvalue, *args)
 
 >>> def roundrobin(*iterables):
 ...     "roundrobin('ABC', 'D', 'EF') --> A D E B F C"