Python Vertical Array Slicing

Question

Can anyone show me how to slice the structure below:

[[1, A], [2, B], [3,C]]

Into two separate lists:

[1, 2, 3]
[A, B, C]

I can obviously do this using code, but wondered if Python was able to do it natively?

Sven Marnach · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-06 14:34:04Z

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my_list = [[1, A], [2, B], [3, C]]
a, b = zip(*my_list)

Note that a and b will end up being tuples.

answered Jun 6, 2011 at 14:34

Sven Marnach

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Thank you Sven! This is perfect.