[Tutor] Beginner's question: Looping through variable & list simultaneously

[Mark Lawrence]

On 03/12/2013 15:51, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> Here's a modification to your earlier code using zip:
>
> PopularCountries = ["Brazil", "China", "France", "India", "Vietnam"]
> Backpackers = 1000000
> msg = "In %d there were %d backpackers worldwide and their most popular country was %s."
> for year, country in zip(range(2009, 2014), PopularCountries):
>      Backpackers = Backpackers*1.15
>      print(msg % (year, Backpackers, country))
>

So much for "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way 
to do it." :)

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Mark Lawrence