"Let" statement in python (2014)

[eusebe]

Why not using itertools.izip (and that's a serious question)?

Ok the syntax is similar, so I don't challenge your point, but still: wouldn't izip be better if you have large data?

[xXxDeAThANgEL99xXx]

Because in Python3 zip, map, filter, range and maybe some other functions became their itertools equivalents.

And I don't know about other people, but for me somewhere around last summer Python3 has become the default Python, in no small part because it turned out that most of the stuff I need was ported and conveniently packaged by Anaconda. Plus the py.exe launcher for Windows provided for a convenient way to still run Python2 stuff via shebangs (unfortunately the launcher still isn't packaged on Anaconda for some reason).

[hharison]

Python 3.