Iterate through pairs of items in a Python list [duplicate]

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You can zip the list with itself sans the first element:

a = [5, 7, 11, 4, 5]

for previous, current in zip(a, a[1:]):
    print(previous, current)

This works even if your list has no elements or only 1 element (in which case zip returns an empty iterable and the code in the for loop never executes). It doesn’t work on generators, only sequences (tuple, list, str, etc).

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