Transpose list of lists

Question

Let\'s take:

l = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]

The result I\'m looking for is

r = [[1, 4, 7], [2, 5, 8], [3, 6, 9]]
         


        

Answer 1

One way to do it is with NumPy transpose. For a list, a:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.array(a).T.tolist()
[[1, 4, 7], [2, 5, 8], [3, 6, 9]]

Or another one without zip:

>>> map(list,map(None,*a))
[[1, 4, 7], [2, 5, 8], [3, 6, 9]]