Modern Python Standard Library Cookbook

Zipping

Zipping means attaching two different iterables to create a new one that contains values from both.

This is very convenient when you have multiple tracks of values that should proceed concurrently. Imagine you had names and surnames and you want to just get a list of people:

names = [ 'Sam', 'Axel', 'Aerith' ]
surnames = [ 'Fisher', 'Foley', 'Gainsborough' ]