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_iter.py

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_iter.py b/Lib/test/test_iter.py
index 383fce3..f83de78 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_iter.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_iter.py
@@ -423,7 +423,10 @@
 
     # Test zip()'s use of iterators.
     def test_builtin_zip(self):
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError, zip)
+        self.assertEqual(zip(), [])
+        self.assertEqual(zip(*[]), [])
+        self.assertEqual(zip(*[(1, 2), 'ab']), [(1, 'a'), (2, 'b')])
+
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, zip, None)
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, zip, range(10), 42)
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, zip, range(10), zip)