Python 3 - Zip is an iterator in a pandas dataframe

Question

I am following the Pandas tutorials

The tutorials are written using python 2.7 and I am doing them in python 3.4

Here is my version details.

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Answer 1

You need to change this line:

BabyDataSet = zip(names,births)

to:

BabyDataSet = list(zip(names,births))

This is because zip now returns an iterator in python 3, hence your error message. For more details see: http://www.diveintopython3.net/porting-code-to-python-3-with-2to3.html#zip and https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#zip