Tom Ritchford
1 min readOct 31, 2019

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You made two significant factual errors in your article that jumped out of the text. They needed correction.

There are over 750 words in this article. If you look harder I am sure you could find some other places where I have used the wrong word as well.

If you aren’t interested in getting things 100% right, your technical articles will not be useful.

I never said zip is only usable with lists.

Actually, you said:

The zip method is used to combine multiple lists in Python into tuples.

Anyone one reading this and trying to learn would be mislead, particularly since the article’s title is, “Advanced Python List Methods and Techniques”.

I regret making you angry, but if I wanted to be critical, there are half-a-dozen other minor issues in the article, starting with the title, which should be something like, “Some useful operations on Python iterators and functions for beginners.”

List comprehensions, zip and sort are not by any stretch of the imagination “advanced features”; also, memoization has nothing to do with lists.

If you have poor anger management skills and a low tolerance for corrections, I strongly suggest you engage in some activity other than writing technical articles.

Have a nice day!

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