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+# BSD 3-Clause License; see https://github.com/scikit-hep/awkward-1.0/blob/main/LICENSE
+
+import pytest  # noqa: F401
+import awkward as ak  # noqa: F401
+
+
+def test_all_options():
+    one = ak._v2.highlevel.Array([1, 2, None])
+    two = ak._v2.highlevel.Array([None, 5, None])
+    result = ak._v2.operations.structure.zip([one, two], optiontype_outside_record=True)
+    assert str(result.type) == "3 * ?(int64, int64)"
+    assert result.tolist() == [None, (2, 5), None]
+
+
+def test_mixed_options():
+    one = ak._v2.highlevel.Array([1, 2, None])
+    two = ak._v2.highlevel.Array([4, 5, 6])
+    result = ak._v2.operations.structure.zip([one, two], optiontype_outside_record=True)
+    assert str(result.type) == "3 * ?(int64, int64)"
+    assert result.tolist() == [(1, 4), (2, 5), None]
+
+
+def test_no_options():
+    one = ak._v2.highlevel.Array([1, 2, 3])
+    two = ak._v2.highlevel.Array([4, 5, 6])
+    result = ak._v2.operations.structure.zip([one, two], optiontype_outside_record=True)
+    assert str(result.type) == "3 * (int64, int64)"
+    assert result.tolist() == [(1, 4), (2, 5), (3, 6)]
+
+
+def test_complex_inner():
+    one = ak._v2.highlevel.Array([1, 2, 3])
+    two = ak._v2.highlevel.Array([[7, 5], [1, 2], [4, None]])
+    result = ak._v2.operations.structure.zip([one, two], optiontype_outside_record=True)
+    assert str(result.type) == "3 * var * ?(int64, int64)"
+    assert result.tolist() == [[(1, 7), (1, 5)], [(2, 1), (2, 2)], [(3, 4), None]]
+
+
+def test_complex_outer():
+    one = ak._v2.highlevel.Array([1, None, 3])
+    two = ak._v2.highlevel.Array([[7, 5], [1, 2], [4, None]])
+    result = ak._v2.operations.structure.zip([one, two], optiontype_outside_record=True)
+    assert str(result.type) == "3 * option[var * ?(int64, int64)]"
+    assert result.tolist() == [[(1, 7), (1, 5)], None, [(3, 4), None]]