I didn't think of that. But for an arbitrary 2D list, you need the asterisk syntax. On Tuesday 25 December 2007 19:00, you wrote: > Chris Fuller wrote: > >>>> zip(*[a,b]) > > > > [(4, 8), (3, 6), (2, 3), (6, 3), (7, 2), (9, 7)] > > This can be just zip(a, b) > > Kent