Reverse zip() ?

[Andreas Waldenburger]

Hi all,

we all know about the zip builtin that combines several iterables into
a list of tuples.

I often find myself doing the reverse, splitting a list of tuples into
several lists, each corresponding to a certain element of each tuple
(e.g. matplotlib/pyplot needs those, rather than lists of points).

This is of course trivial to do via iteration or listcomps, BUT, I was
wondering if there is a function I don't know about that does this
nicely?

redards
/W

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