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Python zip() function - Python Tutorial
From the course: Python Functions for Data Science
Python zip() function
- [Instructor] Another powerful built-in function in Python is zip. Zip takes in two or more sequences as inputs and allows you to iterate through those sequences at the same time. To illustrate how zip can be used when working with data, I'll be walking through an example. Let's say that I have a sequence named points game one containing the number of points that each of five players scored in game one, and I also have a sequence named points game two, containing the number of points that each of five players scored in game two. Now say I want to compute the absolute difference in points scored between game one and game two for each of the five players. First, I'll initialize a sequence named diffs, which is where the differences in points will be saved once they're computed. Next, I'll write a for loop using zip to iterate through points game one and points game two at the same time. In each iteration, I'll use the…
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