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    Useful Python looping techniques

    26th September 2007

    These are all excerpts from the Python documentation.

    To synchronously and simultaneously loop over two sequences:

    1. questions = ['name', 'quest', 'favourite colour']
    2. answers = ['Lancelot', 'the holy grail', 'blue']
    3.  
    4. for q, a in zip(questions, answers):
    5.     print 'What is your %s?  It is %s.' % (q, a)

    To loop over a sequence with both key and value:
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