Iterating through multiple sequences

[David Brown]

"Mark Charsley" <mark.charsley at REMOVE_THIS.radioscape.com> wrote in message
news:memo.20021031104532.116B at a.radioscape.com...
> In several cases recently I've wanted to iterate through two sequences at
> the same time. The way I've been doing it so far is
>
>     assert(len(myList1) == len(myList2))
>     for i in range(len(myList1)):
>         doSomethingWith(myList1[i],myList2[i])
>
> which is a little ugly. Is there some clever idiom I'm missing that would
> simplify things? Something like
>
>     for elem1,elem2 in myList1,myList2:
>         doSomethingWith(elem1,elem2)
>
> which, while valid python, doesn't do what I hoped for
>

Try either zip(..., ..) or map(None, ..., ...).  The difference is how they
treat unequal lengths:
>>> as = [1, 2, 3]
>>> bs = ['a', 'b']
>>> zip(as, bs)
[(1, 'a'), (2, 'b')]
>>> map(None, as, bs)
[(1, 'a'), (2, 'b'), (3, None)]
>>>