On Wednesday 26 December 2007 10:03, Alan Gauld wrote:
> I thought I was following this but now I'm not sure.
>
> Do you mean that if I have a list L that contains an arbitrary
>
> number of sublists that I can call zip using:
> >>> zip(*L)
>
> rather than
>
> >>> zip(L[0],L[1],, L[n])
>
> If s
"Chris Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> "Arbitrary" means any size, and particularly, an unknown size. If
> you don't
> know how big the list is when you are writing the code, you need to
> use this
> syntax.
>
> It's also more concise and less error prone than zip(l[0], l[1],
> l[2]) if yo
"Arbitrary" means any size, and particularly, an unknown size. If you don't
know how big the list is when you are writing the code, you need to use this
syntax.
It's also more concise and less error prone than zip(l[0], l[1], l[2]) if you
have got a 2D list of known length.
On Wednesday 26 D
Chris Fuller wrote:
> I didn't think of that. But for an arbitrary 2D list, you need the asterisk
> syntax.
I don't know what you mean by "an arbitrary 2D list". You need the *
syntax when your arguments are *already* in a list. For any number of
arguments,
zip(*[a, b, ..., x, y, z])
can be
