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diff --git a/Doc/howto/functional.rst b/Doc/howto/functional.rst index b0b43c0373..5dea10e855 100644 --- a/Doc/howto/functional.rst +++ b/Doc/howto/functional.rst @@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ returns them in a tuple:: itertools.izip(['a', 'b', 'c'], (1, 2, 3)) => ('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3) -It's similiar to the built-in :func:`zip` function, but doesn't construct an +It's similar to the built-in :func:`zip` function, but doesn't construct an in-memory list and exhaust all the input iterators before returning; instead tuples are constructed and returned only if they're requested. (The technical term for this behaviour is `lazy evaluation |