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

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On Mar 7, 2013 1:24 AM, "Sven" <svenito@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I was wondering what the best approach for the following might be.
>
> Say you have a list P of points and another list N of other items. You
can always assume that
>
> len(N) <= len(P)
>
> 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.

Untested due to the late hour:

import itertools

for p, n in itertools.izip(P, itertools.cycle(N)):
    # do whatever

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Re: iterating over a list as if it were a circular list Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2013-03-07 01:31 -0800

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