ZIP function in python

Question

I have seen a piece of code somewhere and i don't understand the function of "*" in a line.
The line was like this :
List = [ list (x) for x in zip (*my_list)]

my_list here is a 2-D list
Help me plz

Answer 1

* takes the list's elements, and kind of "joins" them. For string lists, it's like "".join(list).

Answer 2

can you give an example ....

Answer 3

ls = ["a", "b", "c"]
print(*ls)

OUTPUT:
abc

Answer 4

https://code.sololearn.com/ccxPMYCVOp3h/?ref=app

Answer 5

The zip() function take iterables (can be zero or more), makes iterator that aggregates elements based on the iterables passed, and returns an iterator of tuples.