Hi, I suppose my question in general is goofy to native python programmers. I'm originally a C++ programmer and I have a hard time not relating iterators in python to iterators in STL lol. What I was actually trying to accomplish was to iterate over 2 iterators using 1 for loop, however I found that the zip() function allows me to do this quite easily:
list1 = [1,2,3] list2 = [4,5,6] for i1,i2 in zip( list1, list2 ): # do something here... In one of my earlier threads in this group someone had ended up using zip(). After reviewing that thread again I found that I could also use it to solve this problem as well. Sorry for lack of details. Thanks for everyone's help. On 10/10/07, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The original post seems to have been eaten, so I'm replying via a reply. > Sorry for breaking threading. > > > On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 18:01 -0500, Robert Dailey wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> Suppose I wanted to manually iterate over a container, for example: > >> > >> mylist = [1,2,3,4,5,6] > >> > >> it = iter(mylist) > >> while True: > >> print it > >> it.next() > >> > >> In the example above, the print doesn't print the VALUE that the > >> iterator currently represents, it prints the iterator itself. How can I > >> get the value 'it' represents so I can either modify that value or > >> print it? Thanks. > > it = iter(mylist) > while True: > print it.next() > > but that will eventually end with an exception. Better to let Python > handle that for you: > > it = iter(mylist) > for current in it: > print current > > Actually, since mylist is already iterable, you could just do this: > > for current in mylist: > print current > > but you probably know that already. > > > -- > Steven. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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