Combining lists in python

Question

I am trying to combine 2 lists and want to form combinations.

a = [\'ibm\',\'dell\']
b = [\'strength\',\'weekness\']

I want to form combina

Answer 1

You're looking for product(). Try this:

import itertools

a = ['ibm', 'dell']
b = ['strength', 'weakness']

[' '.join(x) for x in itertools.product(a, b)]
=> ['ibm strength', 'ibm weakness', 'dell strength', 'dell weakness']

To loop over the results don't forget that itertools.product() returns an iterator that can be consumed only once. If you need it at a later time, convert it into a list (as I did above, using a list comprehension) and store the result in a variable, for future use. For example:

lst = list(itertools.product(a, b))
for a, b in lst:
    print a, b