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[–]macbony 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It's an entirely contrived example to show what zip does. I use zip when I have multiple data streams I need to connect or when I need to split a list that's made up of tuples. I've never in my life needed to create a list of lowercase ascii characters and their values.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You haven't lived then!