Rob Hunter rob at cs.brown.edu
Wed Oct 8 13:42:00 EDT 2003

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Oh.  That's pretty cool actually.

Rob

On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 01:15 PM, Peter Otten wrote:

> Rob Hunter wrote:
>
>> The responder to this post has a cool way of doing it, but it won't
>> work (I believe) if you have an arbitrary number of sublists.  Can you
>> clarify the problem?  Do you have an arbitrary number of sublists?  Or
>> is it always 3?
>
> I you are referring to the zip trick posted by 
> SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk,
> it *does work for an arbitrary number of sublists, but not for
> arbitrary-length sublists:
>
>>>> for loc in zip(*"alpha beta gamma delta".split()):
> ...     print loc
> ...
> ('a', 'b', 'g', 'd')
> ('l', 'e', 'a', 'e')
> ('p', 't', 'm', 'l')
> ('h', 'a', 'm', 't')
>>>>
>
> Peter
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