Accessing elements of itertools product in a for loop

Question

I have a list of list being the result of appending some other results from itertools product. What I want is to be able to access each element of the lists in the list of lists

Answer 1

Reading your post many times, I think you are interested in this syntax:

for animal, number, color in ...:

It allows you to access the elements from the inner lists.

import itertools
animals = ['dog', 'cat']
numbers = [5, 45, 8, 9]
colors = ['yellow', 'blue', 'black']
for animal, number, color in itertools.product(animals, numbers, colors):
    print "Animal is {0}, number is {1}, and color is {2}".format(animal, number, color)

See this running on ideone

EDIT: Reading your comments in the other thread, I guess(?) you're interested in iterating over the inner tuples. You don't have to convert them to a list, you can simply iterate over them.

import itertools
animals = ['dog', 'cat']
numbers = [5, 45, 8, 9]
colors = ['yellow', 'blue', 'black']
for triplet in itertools.product(animals, numbers, colors):
    for element in triplet:
        print element

Demo on ideone

EDIT 2: You can try that approach for your score thing.

import itertools
animals = ['dog', 'cat']
numbers = [5, 45, 8, 9]
colors = ['yellow', 'blue', 'black']
general_list = ['horse', 'blue', 'dog', 45]

def give_score(element):
    return 1 if element in general_list else 0

for triplet in itertools.product(animals, numbers, colors):
    print sum([give_score(element) for element in triplet])

Demo here