how to iterate over several lists?

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Jun 5 00:30:05 EDT 2009


Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> writes:

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM, kj<no.email at please.post> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Suppose I have two lists, list_a and list_b, and I want to iterate
> > over both as if they were a single list.
[…]

> Just add the lists together.
> 
> for x in list_a + list_b:
>     foo(x)

Which, more precisely, creates a *new* list as the concatenation of the
two existing lists.

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