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Python Python Collections (Retired) Tuples Combo

Posted by Jeffrey Rosenthal
Jeffrey Rosenthal
4,539 Points

no zip function??

my code totally works in the compiler, and i dont want to rewrite it all ugly when that lovely zip function is just sitting there. I mean i will, but I figured I'd write this question, just cause my solution does produce the desired result.

zippy.py 
# combo([1, 2, 3], 'abc')
# Output:
# [(1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c')]
# If you use .append(), you'll want to pass it a tuple of new values.
def combo(one, two):
  return zip(one,two)

1 Answer

Chris Freeman
MOD
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points
Chris Freeman
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,441 Points

You are very close. The zip function returns a zip object. To evaluate this object, wrap it in list():

>>> one = [1, 2, 3]
>>> two = 'abc'
>>> zip(one, two)
<zip object at 0x7f277bbb8288>
>>> list(zip(one, two))
[(1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c')]

def combo(one, two):
    return list(zip(one,two))
Jeffrey Rosenthal
Jeffrey Rosenthal
4,539 Points

Thanks! they seem to print exactly the same in the compiler, that really threw me off!