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Python | zip method
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expand_more Python's zip(~) method combines the elements from the provided iterables and returns it as an iterator of tuples.
Parameters
1. iterables | iterables
The iterables to combine. Can specify multiple.
Return value
An iterator of tuples from the provided input iterables.
Examples
Basic usage
To combine two lists of students and their corresponding score:
students = ['Bob', 'Tom', 'Daisy']scores = [55, 70, 60]
combined = zip(students, scores)print([*combined])
[('Bob', 55), ('Tom', 70), ('Daisy', 60)]
Note that the first tuple contains the first element from each of the two input lists, second tuple contains second element etc. In the last line we unpack the results into a list.
Different length iterables
Zip will stop once the shorter iterable has been exhausted:
students = ['Bob', 'Tom', 'Daisy', 'Mandy']scores = [55, 70, 60]
combined = zip(students, scores)print([*combined])
[('Bob', 55), ('Tom', 70), ('Daisy', 60)]
Here we see that the we stop after three pairs as scores list is exhausted.
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Official Python Documentation
https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#zip
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