Question

Explain the zip()function from Iterators & Generators. __________________ DONT SPAM! NEED CORRECT ANSWERS. Thanks ♥ :D

Answer 1

The zip () function :-

The zip() function accepts an arbitrary number of iterables and returns a  zip object which is an iterator of tuples. For example:

In [] : company_names = ['Apple', 'Microsoft', 'Tesla']

In [] : tickers = ['AAPL', 'MSFT', 'TSLA']

In [] : z = zip(company_names, tickers)

In [] : print(type(z))

<class 'zip'>

Here, we have two lists company_names and tickers. Zipping them together creates a zip object which can be then converted to list and looped  over.

In [] : z_list = list(z)

In [] : z_list

Out[]: [('Apple', 'AAPL'), ('Microsoft', 'MSFT'),

('Tesla', 'TSLA')]

• The first element of the z_list is a tuple which contains the first element  of each list that was zipped.

• The second element in each tuple contains the  corresponding element of each list that was zipped and so on.

Alternatively,  we could use a for() loop to iterate over a zip object print the tuples.

In [] : for company, ticker in z_list:

...: print(f'{ticker} = {company}')

AAPL = Apple

MSFT = Microsoft

TSLA = Tesla

We could also have used the splat operator(*) to print all the elements.

In [] : print(*z)

('Apple', 'AAPL') ('Microsoft', 'MSFT') ('Tesla', 'TSLA')