iterating over two arrays in parallel?

[mh@pixar.com]

I want to interate over two arrays in parallel, something like this:

a=[1,2,3]
b=[4,5,6]

for i,j in a,b:
print i,j

where i,j would be 1,4, 2,5, 3,6 etc.

Is this possible?

Many TIA!
Mark

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Mark Harrison
Pixar Animation Studios

[skip@pobox.com]

Re: iterating over two arrays in parallel?

>>>>"mark" == mh <mh@pixar.comwr ites:

markI want to interate over two arrays in parallel, something like this:
mark a=[1,2,3]
mark b=[4,5,6]

mark for i,j in a,b:
mark print i,j

markwhere i,j would be 1,4, 2,5, 3,6 etc.

a = [1,2,3]
b = [4,5,6]
for (i,j) in zip(a,b):
print i, j

To avoid recreating the entire list you can substitute itertools.izip for
zip.

Skip

[Luis Zarrabeitia]

Re: iterating over two arrays in parallel?


Quoting mh@pixar.com:

I want to interate over two arrays in parallel, something like this:

a=[1,2,3]
b=[4,5,6]

for i,j in a,b:
print i,j

where i,j would be 1,4, 2,5, 3,6 etc.

Is this possible?

Yeap.

===
for i,j in zip(a,b):
print i,j
===

Or better yet (memory wise at least)

===
from itertools import izip

for i,j in izip(a,b):
print i,j
===

("zip" creates a list with the pairs (i,j), izip returns an iterator overthe
pairs "i,j")

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Mark Harrison
Pixar Animation Studios

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Facultad de Matemática y Computación, UH

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[Terry Reedy]

Re: iterating over two arrays in parallel?



mh@pixar.com wrote:

I want to interate over two arrays in parallel, something like this:
>
a=[1,2,3]
b=[4,5,6]
>
for i,j in a,b:
print i,j
>
where i,j would be 1,4, 2,5, 3,6 etc.
>
Is this possible?

How to fish for yourself:
search 'Python loop two arrays parallel' and second hit with Google is

http://docs.python.org/tut/node7.html

which has this entry
"To loop over two or more sequences at the same time, the entries can be
paired with the zip() function.

>>questions = ['name', 'quest', 'favorite color']
>>answers = ['lancelot', 'the holy grail', 'blue']
>>for q, a in zip(questions, answers):

.... print 'What is your %s? It is %s.' % (q, a)
....
What is your name? It is lancelot.
What is your quest? It is the holy grail.
What is your favorite color? It is blue.
"

Or go to the Tutorial directly, expand the chapter headings, and notice
that 5. Data Structures has section 5.6 Looping Techniques.

Indeed, I recommend that you read thru at least the first 9 chapters.

tjr

[Cousin Stanley]

Re: iterating over two arrays in parallel?

I want to interate over two arrays in parallel,
something like this:
>
a=[1,2,3]
b=[4,5,6]
>
for i,j in a,b:
print i,j
>
where i,j would be 1,4, 2,5, 3,6 etc.
>
Is this possible?
>
Many TIA!
Mark

>>>
>>list_1 = range( 1 , 4 )
>>list_2 = range( 4 , 7 )
>>>
>>list12 = zip( list_1 , list_2 )
>>>
>>for this in list12 :

.... print ' ' , this
....
(1, 4)
(2, 5)
(3, 6)

>>>
>>for i , j in list12 :

.... print ' ' , i , j
....
1 4
2 5
3 6


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