Zip
Learn about the transforming function, called "zip", that allows you to loop over more than one sequence in the same loop.
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zip function
Another function you may have seen used in a for loop is zip. It provides a way to loop over more than one sequence in the same loop, as shown below.
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first = ('John', 'Anne', 'Mary', 'Peter')last = ('Brown', 'Smith', 'Jones', 'Cooper')age = (25, 33, 41, 28)for f, l, a in zip(first, last, age):print(f, l, a)
On the first pass through the loop, f, l, and a are set to the first element of first, last, and age respectively. On the second pass, f, l, and a are set to the second element of first, last, and age, and so on. As you might have guessed, zip is producing tuples that are getting unpacked into f, l, and a.
How zip transforms iterables
zip accepts a ...
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