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unzip function?

From	Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com>
Subject	unzip function?
Date	2012-01-18 09:33 -0500
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.4828.1326897240.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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python has builtin zip, but not unzip

A bit of googling found my answer for my decorate/sort/undecorate problem:

a, b = zip (*sorted ((c,d) for c,d in zip (x,y)))

That zip (*sorted...

does the unzipping.

But it's less than intuitively obvious.

I'm thinking unzip should be a builtin function, to match zip.

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unzip function? Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> - 2012-01-18 09:33 -0500
  Re: unzip function? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-18 15:27 +0000
    Re: unzip function? Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-18 11:20 -0500
      Re: unzip function? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-18 23:20 +0000
        Re: unzip function? Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-19 10:56 -0500
        RE: unzip function? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-02-03 00:53 +0000
  Re: unzip function? Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org> - 2012-01-18 19:01 +0100

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