Modified itertools.izip() to match the behavior of __builtin__.zip()
which can now take zero arguments.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 34786bf..410391c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@
Library
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+- itertools.izip() with no arguments now returns an empty iterator instead
+ of raising a TypeError exception.
+
- _strptime.py now has a behind-the-scenes caching mechanism for the most
recent TimeRE instance used along with the last five unique directive
patterns. The overall module was also made more thread-safe.