title: Python zip function - weird result
body: <p>Learning python, came across the zip function and understand that it should build pairs of 2 lists. However, it does not seem to work in my IDE.</p>
  
  <pre><code>a = ['a','b','c']
  b = ['p','q','r']
  r = zip(a,b)
  print(r)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here I would expect a print of [('a','p'), ('b','q'), ('c','r')]. However, the print output then is: <code>&lt;zip object at 0x011E57D8&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>Why is that and what am I doing wrong?</p>