Re: Simple exercise

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>>> for i in range(len(names)):
>>>     print (names[i],totals[i])
>>
>> Always a code smell when range() and len() are combined.
>
> Any other way of traversing two lists in parallel?

Yes.  Builtin function called 'zip'.

  https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#zip

Toy example:

  import string
  alpha = string.ascii_lowercase
  nums = range(len(alpha))
  for N, A in zip(nums, alpha):
      print(N, A)

Good luck,

-Martin

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Martin A. Brown
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