Pass each element of a list to a function that takes multiple arguments in Python?

Question

For example, if I have

a=[[\'a\',\'b\',\'c\'],[1,2,3],[\'d\',\'e\',\'f\'],[4,5,6]]

How can I get each element of a to be an argume

Answer 1

Using sequence unpacking (thanks to delnan for the name):

zip(*a)