Iterating through multiple sequences

[Jørgen Cederberg]

"Mark Charsley" <mark.charsley at REMOVE_THIS.radioscape.com> wrote in message news:memo.20021031104532.116B at a.radioscape.com...
> In several cases recently I've wanted to iterate through two sequences at 
> the same time. The way I've been doing it so far is
> 
>     assert(len(myList1) == len(myList2))
>     for i in range(len(myList1)):
>         doSomethingWith(myList1[i],myList2[i])
>     
> which is a little ugly. Is there some clever idiom I'm missing that would 
> simplify things? Something like
> 
>     for elem1,elem2 in myList1,myList2:
>         doSomethingWith(elem1,elem2)
>         

Instead you can use the function zip:

for elem1, elem2 in zip(mylist1, mylist2):
    doSomethingWith(elem1, elem2)

zip merges the list into tuples.

/Jorgen