how to iterate over several lists?

[Minesh Patel]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Tom<sevenbark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 04:07:19 +0000 (UTC), 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.  E.g. I could write:
>>
>>for x in list_a:
>>    foo(x)
>>for x in list_b:
>>    foo(x)
>>
>>But is there a less cumbersome way to achieve this?  I'm thinking
>>of something in the same vein as Perl's:
>>
>>for $x in (@list_a, @list_b) {
>>  foo($x);
>>}
>>
>>TIA!
>>
>>kynn
>
> def chain(*args):
>  return (item for seq in args for item in seq)
>
> for x in chain(list_a, list_b):
>    foo(x)
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If they are the same length, you can try the zip built-in function.

-- 
Thanks,
--Minesh