Loop in a loop?

Sacred Heart scrdhrt at gmail.com
Fri Jan 18 05:25:06 EST 2008


On Jan 17, 7:39 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> Sacred Heart <scrd... at gmail.com> writes:
> > array1 = ['one','two','three','four']
> > array2 = ['a','b','c','d']
>
> > I want to loop through array1 and add elements from array2 at the end,
> > so it looks like this:
>
> > one a
> > two b
> > three c
> > four c
>
> The "functional" style is to use the zip function that someone
> described.  The old-fashioned way is simply:
>
>    n = len(array1)
>    for i in xrange(n):
>        print array1[i], array2[i]
>
> You can modify this in various ways if the lengths of the lists are
> not equal.  E.g.

Thank you Paul, and everybody else contributing with answers of
various complexity. Although a whole bunch of them was way too complex
for my simple problem, but that's ok.

I now know how to use map and zip, and also learned some tips and
tricks.

Thanks.

All the best,
SH



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