Thomas Güttler <guettler at thomas-guettler.de> wrote: >What is the prefered way of loop over >a list like this? > mylist=[1, "one", 2, "two", 3, "three"] Python23 style: mylist=[1, "one", 2, "two", 3, "three"] for pair in zip(mylist[::2],mylist[1::2]): print pair Anton