Joseph Garvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And this way I can keep referring to j instead of myarray[i], but I'm > still forced to use myarray[i-1] and myarray[i+1] to refer to the > previous and next elements. Being able to do j.prev, j.next seems more > intuitive. > > Is there some other builtin somewhere that provides better > functionality that I'm missing?
You could use a generator comprehension (untested): for prev,cur,next in ((myarray[i-1], myarray[i], myarray[i+1]) for i in xrange(1,len(myarray)-1)): do_something_with (prev, cur, next) Alternatively (untested): elts = iter(myarray) prev,cur,next = elts.next(),elts.next(),elts.next() for next2 in elts: do_something_with (prev, cur, next) prev,cur,next = cur, next, next2 Of course these fail when there's less than 3 elements. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list