Iterate a list as pair (current, next) in Python

Question

I sometimes need to iterate a list in Python looking at the \"current\" element and the \"next\" element. I have, till now, done so with code like:

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Answer 1

I’m just putting this out, I’m very surprised no one has thought of enumerate().

for (index, thing) in enumerate(the_list):
    if index < len(the_list):
        current, next_ = thing, the_list[index + 1]
        #do something