Unzip a Python list

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
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Suppose that you have a list with tuples as the member.

>>> test = [('x',1), ('y',2), ('z',3)]

We can unzip the list by using zip() in conjunction with the * operator.

>>> a, b = zip(*test)
>>> a
('x', 'y', 'z')
>>> b
(1, 2, 3)
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