Collect every pair of elements from a list into tuples in Python [duplicate]

Answer 1

Apart from the above answers, you also need to know the simplest of way too (if you hadn't known already)

l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
o = [(l[i],l[i+1]) for i in range(0,len(l),2)]

Answer 2

Straight from the Python documentation of the itertools module:

from itertools import tee, izip

def pairwise(iterable):
    "s -> (s0,s1), (s1,s2), (s2, s3), ..."
    a, b = tee(iterable)
    next(b, None)
    return izip(a, b)

l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
for pair in pairwise(l):
    print pair

Answer 3

Well there is one very easy, but somewhat fragile way, zip it with sliced versions of itself.

zipped = zip(mylist[0::2], mylist[1::2])

In case you didn't know, the last slice parameter is the "step". So we select every second item in the list starting from zero (1, 3, 5). Then we do the same but starting from one (2, 4, 6) and make tuples out of them with zip.