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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.