Good list. My only thoughts:

Prefer itertools.izip instead of zip to avoid materializing a new list.

Appending the comma operator to the print statement suppresses the newline character and appends a space instead, which is how print 1, "world" works.

The only tip I'd add is using mapping keys in string formatting operations:

    >>> d = {'cow': 'moo'}
    >>> print 'the cow says %(cow)s' % d
    the cow says moo