iterating over a list as if it were a circular list
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Thu Mar 7 08:37:07 EST 2013
In article <mailman.2993.1362648214.2939.python-list at python.org>,
Sven <svenito at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering what the best approach for the following might be.
>
> Say you have a list P of points and another list N of other items. You can
> always assume that
>
> len(N) <= len(P)
>
> Now I would like to iterate over P and place one N at each point. However
> if you run out of N I'd like to restart from N[0] and carry on until all
> the points have been populated.
> So far I've got
>
> for point in points:
I'm not completely following what you're trying to do, but I think what
you're looking for is some combination of zip() and itertools.cycle().
pairs = zip(P, cycle(N))
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