Is there a more elegant way for unpacking keys and values of a dictionary into two lists, without losing consistence?

Question

What I came up with is:

keys, values = zip(*[(key, value) for (key, value) in my_dict.iteritems()])

But I am not satisfied. What do the pyt

Answer 1

What about using my_dict.keys() and my_dict.values()?

keys, values = my_dict.keys(), my_dict.values()