Merging Iterables with FillValue Using itertools.zip_longest

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Code introduction


This function utilizes the itertools library's zip_longest method to merge multiple iterable objects. If an iterable object is shorter than the others, it uses fillvalue to fill in the gaps.


Technology Stack : itertools

Code Type : Function

Code Difficulty : Intermediate


                
                    
def zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=0):
    zip_longest = itertools.zip_longest(*args, fillvalue=fillvalue)
    for tup in zip_longest:
        yield tup                
              
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