commit eaef61511656071194565878dc80c46096d46415
author Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> Sat Aug 02 07:42:57 2003 +0000
committer Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> Sat Aug 02 07:42:57 2003 +0000
tree b3e761f4c79ace0c0baeeb3ed845afd14ca666bb
parent 9463792c686c312dcf85c649b7183eae25403945

As discussed on python-dev, changed builtin.zip() to handle zero arguments
by returning an empty list instead of raising a TypeError.

Lib/test/test_builtin.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
index 3dd2ffc..65dabb1 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_builtin.py
@@ -1126,7 +1126,8 @@
                 if i < 0 or i > 2: raise IndexError
                 return i + 4
         self.assertEqual(zip(a, I()), t)
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError, zip)
+        self.assertEqual(zip(), [])
+        self.assertEqual(zip(*[]), [])
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, zip, None)
         class G:
             pass