Explanation

• A Zipper is a data structure used to efficiently navigate and manipulate sequences. It’s often used in functional programming to manage pairs of sequences, typically by “zipping” together two lists.

Steps

• Zip two sequences into a sequence of pairs.
• Provide efficient operations for traversing and modifying these pairs.

Time Complexity

• Time complexity: O(n) for zipping two sequences of size n.

def zip_lists(list1, list2):
    return list(zip(list1, list2))
 
# Example usage
list1 = [1, 2, 3]
list2 = ['a', 'b', 'c']
zipped = zip_lists(list1, list2)
print(zipped)  # Outputs: [(1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, 'c')]