Zipping together unicode strings in Python

Question

I have the string:

a = \"ÀÁÂÃÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜ\" b = \"àáâãäèéçêëìíîïòóôõöùúûüÿ\"

and I want to create the string

\"ÀàÁáÂâ...\"         


        

Answer 1

You have to join them up after you zip them, and also you need to define them as unicode strings:

>>>import itertools
>>>a = u"ÀÁÂÃÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÒÓÔÕÖÙÚÛÜ"
>>>b = u"àáâãäèéçêëìíîïòóôõöùúûüÿ"
>>>zipped = itertools.izip_longest(a,b, fillvalue="")
>>>print "".join(["".join(x) for x in zipped])

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>>>zipped = itertools.izip_longest(a,b, fillvalue="")
>>>print "".join(map("".join, zipped))

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