How does zip(*[iter(s)]*n) work in Python?

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iter() is an iterator over a sequence. [x] * n produces a list containing n quantity of x, i.e. a list of length n, where each element is x. *arg unpacks a sequence into arguments for a function call. Therefore you’re passing the same iterator 3 times to zip(), and it pulls an item from the iterator each time.

x = iter([1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9])
print zip(x, x, x)

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