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| From | giacomo boffi <pecore@pascolo.net> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: What does zip mean? |
| Date | Thu, 13 Nov 2014 23:10:56 +0100 |
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Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes: > No, you don't. That's not how a zipper works. Each tooth from side A, > isn't bound with one from side B. It's bound with _two_ of them from > side B. And each of those is in turn bound with an additional tooth > from side A, and so on... > >> In your program you have two lists, whose elements `zip` returns >> bound together in pairs > > What the zipper on a coat does is convert two separate sequences into > a single sequence where the members alternate between the two input > sequences. IOW if we want to do something analogous to a zipper > fastener it should do this: > > zip([a,b,c,d,e,f],[1,2,3,4,5,6]) => [a,1,b,2,c,3,d,4,e,5,f,6] > > Item '1' is bound equally to item 'a' and 'b'. Item 'b' is bound > equally to item '1' and '2'. I love you folks of CLP
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What does zip mean? satishmlmlml@gmail.com - 2014-11-09 02:44 -0800
Re: What does zip mean? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-09 21:58 +1100
Re: What does zip mean? milos zorica <miloshzorica@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 08:06 -0300
Re: What does zip mean? giacomo boffi <giacomo_boffi@inwind.it> - 2014-11-10 17:48 +0100
Re: What does zip mean? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2014-11-10 17:19 +0000
Re: What does zip mean? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-11-11 10:04 +1300
Re: What does zip mean? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-11-11 07:36 +1100
Re: What does zip mean? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-11-10 19:39 -0500
Re: What does zip mean? giacomo boffi <pecore@pascolo.net> - 2014-11-13 23:10 +0100
Re: What does zip mean? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-11-14 22:06 +1100
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