Loop over list of pairs

[Jp Calderone]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 04:25:29PM +0200, Thomas G?ttler wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> What is the prefered way of loop over
> a list like this?
>  mylist=[1, "one", 2, "two", 3, "three"]

  From your subject, I'm guessing you want a loop with two variables which
take on the values (1, "one"), then (2, "two"), and finally (3, "three").

  If this is the case, this works:

    i = iter(mylist)
    for (a, b) in zip(i, i):
        ...

  Jp
    
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