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

Iterating by index can do the same thing:

#!/usr/bin/python
the_list = [1, 2, 3, 4]
for i in xrange(len(the_list) - 1):
    current_item, next_item = the_list[i], the_list[i + 1]
    print(current_item, next_item)

Output:

(1, 2)
(2, 3)
(3, 4)