Using list comprehension in Python to do something similar to zip()?

Question

I\'m a Python newbie and one of the things I am trying to do is wrap my head around list comprehension. I can see that it\'s a pretty powerful feature that\'s worth learning.

Answer 1

If you wanted to do it without using zip at all, you would have to do something like this:

[ [cities[i],airports[i]] for i in xrange(min(len(cities), len(airports))) ]

but there is no reason to do that other than an intellectual exercise.

Using map(list, zip(cities, airports)) is shorter, simpler and will almost certainly run faster.