Ding, ding, ding. Winner, winner, winner. Peter wins the prize, suggesting the use of zip(). This allowed me to pull two different strings from two different lists at one time in a for loop.
for description_position, code_position in zip(description, code): Yes!! Thank you Peter Clayton !-----Original Message----- !From: Tutor [mailto:[email protected]] On !Behalf Of Peter Otten !Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2014 4:41 AM !To: [email protected] !Subject: Re: [Tutor] solution for for loop? ! !Clayton Kirkwood wrote: ! !> description_string=code_string='' !> !> description = code = 'a' !> !> for (description_position, code_position) in (description, code): !> !> print(description_position,code_position) ! !> I have tried variations on this for statement, and it doesn't !> work:<))) Both description and code have the same size array. I was !> hoping that some derivative of this for would bring in a new !> description_position value, and code_position value. ! !You want zip(): ! !>>> colors = [ "red", "green", "yellow"] fruit_list = ["cherry", !>>> "apple", "banana"] for color, fruit in zip(colors, fruit_list): !... print(color, fruit) !... !red cherry !green apple !yellow banana ! ! !_______________________________________________ !Tutor maillist - [email protected] !To unsubscribe or change subscription options: !https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
