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Transpose matrix

Transposes a two-dimensional list.

Use *lst to get the provided list as tuples.
Use zip() in combination with list() to create the transpose of the given two-dimensional list.

def transpose(lst):
  return list(zip(*lst))

transpose([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9], [10, 11, 12]])
# [(1, 4, 7, 10), (2, 5, 8, 11), (3, 6, 9, 12)]

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