Re: iterating over a list as if it were a circular list

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Date	Thu, 7 Mar 2013 20:28:02 +1100
Subject	Re: iterating over a list as if it were a circular list
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On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Sven <svenito@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now I would like to iterate over P and place one N at each point. However if
> you run out of N I'd like to restart from N[0] and carry on until all the
> points have been populated.

Check out itertools.cycle, it should do what you want.

ChrisA

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Re: iterating over a list as if it were a circular list Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-07 20:28 +1100

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