How can I iterate through two lists in parallel in Python?

Assuming that two lists may be of unequal length, parallel traversal over common indices can be done using for loop over over range of minimum length

>>> L1
['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
>>> L2
[4, 5, 6]
>>> l=len(L1) if len(L1)<=len(L2)else len(L2)
>>> l
3
>>> for i in range(l):
    print (L1[i], L2[i])

a 4
b 5
c 6

A more pythonic way is to use zip() function which results in an iterator that aggregates elements from each iterables

>>> for i,j in zip(L1,L2):
    print (i,j)

a 4
b 5
c 6

Malhar Lathkar

Published on 29-Jan-2018 19:39:56

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