Zac Burns wrote: > More succinct failure: > > keys, values = zip(*{}.iteritems())
Simple fix: some_iterable = {}.iteritems() keys, values = zip(*list(some_iterable)) or: keys, values = zip(*(some_iterable if isinstance(some_iterable, (list, tuple)) else list(some_iterable))) Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list