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In Python, the zip() func on is used to combine two or more iterables (like lists or tuples) element-

wise into tuples. It returns an iterator of tuples, where each tuple contains one element from each of
the iterables.

Syntax:

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zip(*iterables)

Example:

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list1 = [1, 2, 3]

list2 = ['a', 'b', 'c']

zipped = zip(list1, list2)

print(list(zipped))

Output:

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[(1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c')]

The zip() func on stops when the shortest input iterable is exhausted.

Unzipping:

You can also "unzip" a zipped list of tuples using * operator:

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zipped = [(1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c')]

unzipped = zip(*zipped)

list1, list2 = list(unzipped)

print(list1) # (1, 2, 3)

print(list2) # ('a', 'b', 'c')

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You said:

What about the one list is having higher length then the another one
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When the lists have different lengths, the zip() func on stops when the shortest iterable is
exhausted. It doesn't fill in or extend the shorter list; it just pairs up elements up to the length of the
shortest iterable and ignores the remaining elements in the longer ones.

Example:

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list1 = [1, 2, 3, 4]

list2 = ['a', 'b']

zipped = zip(list1, list2)

print(list(zipped))

Output:

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[(1, 'a'), (2, 'b')]

In this case, since list2 has only 2 elements, zip() stops a er pairing the first 2 elements, ignoring the
remaining elements in list1.

Handling Different Lengths:

If you want to handle the situa on where lists have different lengths (for example, filling missing
values), you can use itertools.zip_longest() from the itertools module, which allows specifying a fill
value for shorter lists.

Example with zip_longest:

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from itertools import zip_longest

list1 = [1, 2, 3, 4]

list2 = ['a', 'b']

zipped = zip_longest(list1, list2, fillvalue='NA')

print(list(zipped))
Output:

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