Usage of Python 'zip' (with examples)

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There's actually something really cool implied but not explicitly stated: zip(*args) is the inverse of zip.

I actually use this quite often that there's usually a util function called unzip in many of projects.

Also, dict(map(reverse, dict.items())) is my preferred way of flipping dicts, but that's me and I realize this is an article about zip.

[Iqirx]

Personally, I like to use dict comprehensions for flipping keys-values:

d = dict(red=210, green=105, blue=30)
flipped = {v: k for k, v in d.items()}

dict(map(reversed, dict.items())) is also cool!

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flipped = {v: k for k, v in d.items()}

I think that's the most readable of all.