> If your "alias" can be read-only: > alias = zip(*myList) a=[['00','01'],['10','11']] l=zip(*a) print(l) returns... [('00', '10'), ('01', '11')] IS NOT AT ALL WHAT I WANT ;-) What I want is print a[1][0] '10' but print l[1][0] '01' notice the indexes of the list l are inverted...