No messing around with zip().

pep-3099.txt

@@ -140,9 +140,16 @@ Core language
    Thread: "No Container Literals",
    http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-July/002550.html
 
+
 Builtins
 ========
 
+* ``zip()`` won't grow keyword arguments or other mechanisms to prevent
+  it from stopping at the end of the shortest sequence.
+
+   Thread: "have zip() raise exception for sequences of different lengths",
+   http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-August/003338.html
+
 * ``hash()`` won't become an attribute since attributes should be cheap
   to compute, which isn't necessarily the case for a hash.