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Re: how to separate a list into two lists?

From Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com>
Subject Re: how to separate a list into two lists?
Date 2011-08-06 10:24 -0700
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On 8/6/2011 10:07 AM smith jack said...
> if a list L is composed with tuple consists of two elements, that is
> L = [(a1, b1), (a2, b2) ... (an, bn)]
>
> is there any simple way to divide this list into two separate lists , such that
> L1 = [a1, a2... an]
> L2=[b1,b2 ... bn]
>

 >>> L = [('a1', 'b1'), ('a2', 'b2'),('an', 'bn')]
 >>> zip(*L)
[('a1', 'a2', 'an'), ('b1', 'b2', 'bn')]


Emile

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Re: how to separate a list into two lists? Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2011-08-06 10:24 -0700
  Re: how to separate a list into two lists? bud <only@fleshwound.org> - 2011-08-06 18:21 +0000
    Re: how to separate a list into two lists? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-08-06 19:35 +0100
    Re: how to separate a list into two lists? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-08-07 10:13 +1000

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