Three dumb questions (ordered by dumbness descending)

[Duncan Booth]

Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de> wrote in news:amnvit$7kqdt$1 at ID-
77524.news.dfncis.de:

> 1. Why is 'zip(zip(x)) != x' (should be the same because it's the 
> transposed)

Because zip(x) doesn't transpose x. BUT, zip(*x) does transpose x.
So the question is what zip(*zip(*x)) does?

>>> x = [(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]
>>> x == zip(*zip(*x))
1

Provided x is a list of tuples, and you expand the list into separate 
arguments when calling zip, it is indeed its own inverse.

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Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
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