For example calculating the average of each i-th element of multiple iterables:
def average(*args):
return float(sum(args)) / len(args) # cast to float - only mandatory for python 2.x
measurement1 = [100, 111, 99, 97]
measurement2 = [102, 117, 91, 102]
measurement3 = [104, 102, 95, 101]
...