talk about how you can unzip with zip
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 3ed4ab0..f70cc36 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
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@@ -1387,6 +1387,18 @@
makes possible an idiom for clustering a data series into n-length groups
using ``zip(*[iter(s)]*n)``.
+ :func:`zip` in conjunction with the ``*`` operator can be used to unzip a
+ list::
+
+ >>> x = [1, 2, 3]
+ >>> y = [4, 5, 6]
+ >>> zipped = zip(x, y)
+ >>> zipped
+ [(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)]
+ >>> x2, y2 = zip(*zipped)
+ >>> x == x2, y == y2
+ True
+
.. versionadded:: 2.0
.. versionchanged:: 2.4