a question about zip...

[Steven D'Aprano]

KraftDiner wrote:

> I had a structure that looked like this
> ((0,1), (2, 3), (4, 5), (6,7)
> 
> I changed my code slightly and now I do this:
> odd = (1,3,5,7)
> even = (0,2,4,6)
> all = zip(even, odd)
> 
> however the zip produces:
> [(0, 1), (2, 3), (4, 5), (6, 7)]
> 
> Which is a list of tuples.. I wanted a tuple of tuples...

Others have already told you how to do this. But I have 
a question: why do you care that it is a tuple, not a 
list? Is there something you need to do with it that 
can be done with tuples but not lists?

In other words, while it isn't *wrong* to convert the 
list to a tuple, perhaps it is *unnecessary*?


-- 
Steven.