How do I merge two python iterators?

Question

I have two iterators, a list and an itertools.count object (i.e. an infinite value generator). I would like to merge these two into a resulting ite

Answer 1

I also agree that itertools is not needed.

But why stop at 2?

  def tmerge(*iterators):
    for values in zip(*iterators):
      for value in values:
        yield value

handles any number of iterators from 0 on upwards.

UPDATE: DOH! A commenter pointed out that this won't work unless all the iterators are the same length.

The correct code is:

def tmerge(*iterators):
  empty = {}
  for values in itertools.izip_longest(*iterators, fillvalue=empty):
    for value in values:
      if value is not empty:
        yield value

and yes, I just tried it with lists of unequal length, and a list containing {}.