Iterating over every two elements in a list [duplicate]

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You need a pairwise() (or grouped()) implementation.

def pairwise(iterable):
    "s -> (s0, s1), (s2, s3), (s4, s5), ..."
    a = iter(iterable)
    return zip(a, a)

for x, y in pairwise(l):
   print("%d + %d = %d" % (x, y, x + y))

Or, more generally:

def grouped(iterable, n):
    "s -> (s0,s1,s2,...sn-1), (sn,sn+1,sn+2,...s2n-1), (s2n,s2n+1,s2n+2,...s3n-1), ..."
    return zip(*[iter(iterable)]*n)

for x, y in grouped(l, 2):
   print("%d + %d = %d" % (x, y, x + y))

In Python 2, you should import izip as a replacement for Python 3’s built-in zip() function.

All credit to martineau for his answer to my question, I have found this to be very efficient as it only iterates once over the list and does not create any unnecessary lists in the process.

N.B: This should not be confused with the pairwise recipe in Python’s own itertools documentation, which yields s -> (s0, s1), (s1, s2), (s2, s3), ..., as pointed out by @lazyr in the comments.

Little addition for those who would like to do type checking with mypy on Python 3:

from typing import Iterable, Tuple, TypeVar

T = TypeVar("T")

def grouped(iterable: Iterable[T], n=2) -> Iterable[Tuple[T, ...]]:
    """s -> (s0,s1,s2,...sn-1), (sn,sn+1,sn+2,...s2n-1), ..."""
    return zip(*[iter(iterable)] * n)

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