On Aug 11, 6:40 am, Mensanator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Aug 10, 11:18 pm, ssecorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Is there a syntax for looping through 2 iterables at the same time?
>
> > for x in y:
> > for a in b:
>
> > is not what I want.
>
> > I want:
> > for x in y and for a in b:
>
> Something like this?
>
> >>> a = ['a','b','c']
> >>> b = [1,2,3]
> >>> zip(a,b)
>
> [('a', 1), ('b', 2), ('c', 3)]I know zip but lets say I have a word "painter" and I want to compare it to a customer's spelling, he might have written "paintor" and I want to check how many letters are the same. Now I know how I could do this, it is not hard. I am just wondering if these is any specific simple syntax for it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
