title: How to unzip a list of tuples into individual lists?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19339/a-transpose-unzip-function-in-python">A Transpose/Unzip Function in Python</a>  </p>
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  <p>I have a list of tuples, where I want to unzip this list into two independent lists. I'm looking for some standardized operation in Python. </p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; l = [(1,2), (3,4), (8,9)]
  &gt;&gt;&gt; f_xxx (l)
  [ [1, 3, 8], [2, 4, 9] ] 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm looking for a succinct and pythonic way to achieve this. </p>
  
  <p>Basically, I'm hunting for inverse operation of <a href="http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html?highlight=zip#zip" rel="noreferrer"><code>zip()</code></a> function. </p>