writing list contents to a file

[Erik Max Francis]

Christoph Lehmann wrote:

> Hi I am a newbie:
> I have two lists each with the same length: i want to write its
> content
> in the way
> 
> list1Item1  list2Item1
> list1Item2  list2Item2
> ....
> list1Itemn  list2Itemn
> 
> what's the moste elegant way?

If the lists aren't too large, something like

	for x, y in zip(L1, L2):
	    f.write("%s\t%s\n" % (x, y))

If they're potentially truly huge lists, then you'll probably want
something like

	size = min(len(L1), len(L2)) # however you want to handle this
	for i in xrange(size):
	    x, y = L1[i], L2[i]
	    f.write("%s\t%s\n" % (x, y))

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