Question and Answer

The transpose of a matrix is a matrix with the column and row elements switched. For example, the transpose of [[1, 2], [3, 4]] is [[1, 3], [2, 4]].

USE zip() TO TRANSPOSE A MATRIX

Pass the rows of the matrix as separate lists to zip(*iterable) using the * operator. Use a loop to iterate through each row. For each row, call list(iterable) on it and add the result into a new list that represents the transpose matrix.

matrix = [[1, 2], [3, 4]]

zipped_rows = zip(*matrix)

transpose_matrix = [list(row) for row in zipped_rows]

print(transpose_matrix)

[[1, 3], [2, 4]]

OTHER SOLUTIONS

Use numpy.transpose()

• This solution is shorter and performs better with larger matrices. However, it requires use of the NumpPy library.