zip in conjunction with the * operator can be used to unzip a list



In [6]:

    
x = [1,2,3]
y = [4,5,6]

zipped = zip(x,y)
list(zipped)









    Out[6]:





[(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)]



In [9]:

    
x2,y2 = zip(*zip(x,y))
print(x2)
print(y2)









    



(1, 2, 3)
(4, 5, 6)



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