Looping on more than one list

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

ahmed Bouferguene wrote:
> 
> a = [1,2,34]
> b=["a", "b", "d"]
> 
> for x in a, y in b :
>     print x, y
> 
> and the loop exits when the shortest list is exhausted

minlen = min(len(a), len(b))
for x,y in map(None, a[:minlen], b[:minlen]):
  print x, y

In Python 2.0 you will probably be able to do:

for x,y in zip(a,b):
  print x, y

Peter
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