for loop question

[Paul Hankin]

On Oct 10, 9:12 pm, Tim Chase <python.l... at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> > test = u"Hello World"
>
> > for cur,next in test:
> >     print cur,next
>
> > Ideally, this would output:
>
> > 'H', 'e'
> > 'e', 'l'
> > 'l', 'l'
> > 'l', 'o'
> > etc...
>
> > Of course, the for loop above isn't valid at all. I am just giving an
> > example of what I'm trying to accomplish. Anyone know how I can achieve the
> > goal in the example above? Thanks.
>
> A "works-for-me":
>
>  >>> pairs = (test[i:i+2] for i in xrange(len(test)-1))
>  >>> for a,b in pairs:
> ...     print a,b

for a, b in zip(test, test[1:]):
  print a, b

--
Paul Hankin