Combining Iterables with Fillvalue

This function combines multiple iterables into a single iterable, filling in missing values with a specified fillvalue.

Technology Stack : itertools

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=()):
    """Combine multiple iterables into a single iterable, filling in missing values with a specified fillvalue.

    Args:
        *args: An arbitrary number of iterables.
        fillvalue: The value to use for missing values.

    Returns:
        An iterator that aggregates elements from each of the iterables.
        If the iterables are of uneven length, missing values are filled in with the fillvalue.

    """
    # Code here
    from itertools import zip_longest

    return zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=fillvalue)