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Python for Data Engineers
Part 6 of 24
Concise guides to Python features and patterns most useful for data engineering — from built-ins to standard library modules.
Using zip in Python
If you haven't encountered it already, note that zip is quite handy in Python. It allows you to go through multiple iterables (such as lists, sets, tuples etc) at the same time, effectively "zipping" them into an iterator that will produce tuples of ...
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