looping through a list of lists.

[SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk]

> From:	saoirse_79 [SMTP:saoirse_79 at yahoo.com]
> I have a list of lists as follows:
> [['-', '-', '-', '-', '-', '-', '-', 'K', 'S', 'A', 'K'],
> ['-', '-', '-', '-', 'L', 'Q', 'Q', 'T', 'N', 'S', 'E'], 
> ['T', 'L', 'E', 'E', 'L', 'M', 'K', 'L', 'S', 'P', 'E']]
> I want to be able to read each character  and compare it with all 
> characters at the same positon in all sublists. Is this possible.
> I have tried a few different methods but nothing seems to allow me to 
> compare the sublists character by character.
 
PythonWin 2.3.2 (#49, Oct  2 2003, 20:02:00) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32.
Portions Copyright 1994-2001 Mark Hammond (mhammond at skippinet.com.au) - see
'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.
>>> spam = [['-', '-', '-', '-', '-', '-', '-', 'K', 'S', 'A', 'K'],['-',
'-', '-', '-', 'L', 'Q', 'Q', 'T', 'N', 'S', 'E'], ['T', 'L', 'E', 'E', 'L',
'M', 'K', 'L', 'S', 'P', 'E']]
>>> for eggs, chips, beans in zip(*spam):
... 	print eggs, chips, beans
... 
- - T
- - L
- - E
- - E
- L L
- Q M
- Q K
K T L
S N S
A S P
K E E

HTH...

Cheers,
Simon Brunning,
http://www.brunningonline.net/simon/blog/
--LongSig




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