Emily Fortuna wrote: > I feel like there should be a better way to do this process: > Can you please help? > (This is trivial example code I created off the top of my head, but the > same concept that I am trying to do elsewhere.) > > class Person(object): > def __init__(self, first_name, age, fav_color): > self.first_name = first_name > self.age = age > self.fav_color = fav_color > > first_names = ['emily', 'john', 'jeremy', 'juanita'] > ages = [6, 34, 1, 19] > colors = ['blue', 'orange', 'green', 'yellow'] > > ageIter = ages.iter() > colorIter = colors.iter() > people = [Person(name, ageIter.next(), colorIter.next()) for name in > first_names] > > print people > > any suggestions, please?
The builtin function zip() does this: people = [Person(name, age, color) for name, age color in zip(first_names, ages, colors)] Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
