Discussion on: What is a Zip function in Python?

EDIT - this is a terrible comment.. scratch that.

Important to note the problem that the zip function solves for us and that is unnecessary nesting, and creating a 〽 mountain effect in our code. Which outside of these simple examples leads to unnecessary complexity.

❌ without zip function

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4]
letters = ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
for number in numbers
   for letter in letters:
      print(number, letter)   # (1, 'a') (2, 'b') (3, 'c') (4, 'd')

✅ Your solution is much better

numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4]
letters = ["a", "b", "c", "d"]
for pair in zip(numbers, letters):
   print(pair)   # (1, 'a') (2, 'b') (3, 'c') (4, 'd')