How would you zip an unknown number of lists in Python?

Let's say I have the following lists:

assignment = ['Title', 'Project1', 'Project2', 'Project3']
grades = [ ['Jim', 45, 50, 55], \
           ['Joe', 55, 50, 45], \
           ['Pat', 55, 60, 65] ]

I could zip the lists using the following code:

zip(assignment, grades[0], grades[1], grades[2])

How would I use the zip function to zip this if the grades list contains an unkown number of items?

Solution

You can use * to unpack a list into positional parameters:

zip(assignment, *grades)