Zip with list output instead of tuple

Question

What is the fastest and most elegant way of doing list of lists from two lists?

I have

In [1]: a=[1,2,3,4,5,6]

In [2]: b=[7,8,9,10,11,12]

In [3]: z         


        

Answer 1

Using numpy

The definition of elegance can be quite questionable but if you are working with numpy the creation of an array and its conversion to list (if needed...) could be very practical even though not so efficient compared using the map function or the list comprehension.

import numpy as np 
a = b = range(10)
zipped = zip(a,b)
result = np.array(zipped).tolist()
Out: [[0, 0],
 [1, 1],
 [2, 2],
 [3, 3],
 [4, 4],
 [5, 5],
 [6, 6],
 [7, 7],
 [8, 8],
 [9, 9]]

Otherwise skipping the zip function you can use directly np.dstack:

np.dstack((a,b))[0].tolist()