Matt Nordhoff wrote: [snip] > > As Paddy wrote, zip is its own unzip: > >>>> zipped = zip((1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6)) >>>> zipped > [(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)] >>>> unzipped = zip(*zipped) >>>> unzipped > [(1, 2, 3), (4, 5, 6)] > > Neat and completely confusing, huh? :-) > > <http://paddy3118.blogspot.com/2007/02/unzip-un-needed-in-python.html>
I hadn't thought about zip() being symmetrical like that. Very cool... Rich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list