Zip lists in Python

Question

I am trying to learn how to \"zip\" lists. To this end, I have a program, where at a particular point, I do the following:

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Answer 1

It's worth adding here as it is such a highly ranking question on zip. zip is great, idiomatic Python - but it doesn't scale very well at all for large lists.

Instead of:

books = ['AAAAAAA', 'BAAAAAAA', ... , 'ZZZZZZZ']
words = [345, 567, ... , 672]

for book, word in zip(books, words):
   print('{}: {}'.format(book, word))

Use izip. For modern processing, it stores it in L1 Cache memory and is far more performant for larger lists. Use it as simply as adding an i:

for book, word in izip(books, words):
   print('{}: {}'.format(book, word))