Dec. 16, 2023, 5:28 p.m. | Vladimir Ignatev

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I noticed that my recent daily Python quiz about zip (I mean an iterable, not the .zip archive) received a decent attention. Thank you to all and every participant!


No wonder that iterables in Python is an essential tool for pocking up with data. There are few reasons made iterables popular and fun: performance, memory efficiency and expressive syntax.


One of the hardest things to understand in a zoo of iterables is zip, indeed. When I faced this animal …

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