[Tutor] is it possible to traverse two lists simulatenously using python

Michiel Overtoom motoom at xs4all.nl
Thu Apr 30 12:54:49 CEST 2009


Kent Johnson wrote:

> Use zip() or itertools.izip():

And when the sequences are of unequal length:

topgirls=["Ann","Mary","Casey","Zoe"]
richgirls=["Britt","Susan","Alice"]

print "\nUsing zip()"
for i,j in zip(topgirls,richgirls):
     print i,j

print "\nUsing map()"
for i,j in map(None,topgirls,richgirls):
     print i,j


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