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cyberbemon
cyberbemon

Reputation: 3200

Printing all the values from multiple lists at the same time

Suppose I have 3 lists such as these 

l1 = [1,2,3]
l2 = [4,5,6]
l3 = [7,8,9]

how do I get to print out everything from these lists at the same time ? What's the pythonic way to do something like that ?

for f in l1,l2 and l3:
    print f

This only seems to be taking 2 lists into account.

Desired output: for each element in all the lists, I'm printing them out using a different function 

def print_row(filename, status, Binary_Type):
    print " %-45s %-15s %25s " % (filename, status, Binary_Type)

and I Call the above function inside the for loop.

Upvotes: 11

Views: 49250

Answers (8)

juras
juras

Reputation: 1

I prefer to use three for loops with if condition.

l1 = [1,2,3]
l2 = [4,5,6]
l3 = [7,8,9]
total = []
for x in range(len(l1)):
    for y in range(len(l2)):
        for z in range(len(l3)):
            if x == y and x == z:
                total.append(str(l1[x]) + " " + str(l2[y]) + " " + str(l3[z]))

print(total)

for i in range(len(total)):
    print(total[i])

Upvotes: 0

pourhaus
pourhaus

Reputation: 616

If you mean that you have 3 lists of equal length and you want to print out their contents as 3 columns, then how about zip() to connect the columns and a list comprehension to print() on each iteration:

[ print(row) for row in zip(l1, l2, l3) ]

The above will print repr's of tuple(s). If you want to format the values otherwise:

[ print("{} / {} / {}".format(*row)) for row in zip(l1, l2, l3) ]

Nobody said you have to use the output of a list comprehension.

Upvotes: 0

Dan
Dan

Reputation: 1179

To expand on top of Abhijit answer, you could use the itertools generator as the iterable within a list comprehension.

>>> [ n for n in itertools.chain(l1, l2, l3) ]
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Upvotes: 1

mgilson
mgilson

Reputation: 310069

I think you might want zip:

for x,y,z in zip(l1,l2,l3):
    print x,y,z  #1 4 7
                 #2 5 8
                 #3 6 9

What you're doing:

for f in l1,l2 and l3:

is a little strange. It is basically equivalent to for f in (l1,l3): since l2 and l3 returns l3 (assuming that l2 and l3 are both non-empty -- Otherwise, it will return the empty one.)

If you just want to print each list consecutively, you can do:

for lst in (l1,l2,l3):  #parenthesis unnecessary, but I like them...
    print lst   #[ 1, 2, 3 ]
                #[ 4, 5, 6 ]
                #[ 7, 8, 9 ]

Upvotes: 17

Abhijit
Abhijit

Reputation: 63757

It depends on what you want to achieve,

>>> #Given
>>> l1,l2,l3 = [1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]
>>> #To print row wise
>>> import itertools
>>> for f in itertools.chain(l1,l2,l3):
    print(f,end=" ")


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 
>>> #To print column wise
>>> for f in itertools.izip(l1,l2,l3):
    print(*f,end=" ")


1 4 7 2 5 8 3 6 9 
>>>

or the following implementation which will work in Python 2.7

>>> for f in itertools.chain(*itertools.izip(l1,l2,l3)):
    print f,


1 4 7 2 5 8 3 6 9 
>>>

Upvotes: 2

Charles Beattie
Charles Beattie

Reputation: 5949

It you're lists are not all the same length it is often better to use map:

>>> l1 = [1, 2, 3]
>>> l2 = [4, 5, 6]
>>> l3 = [7, 8, 9, 2]
>>> for x, y, z in map( None, l1, l2, l3):
...     print x, y, z
...
1 4 7
2 5 8
3 6 9
None None 2

Upvotes: 1

inspectorG4dget
inspectorG4dget

Reputation: 114025

If you want to print

1 4 7
2 5 8
3 6 9

Do:

for i,j,k in zip(l1,l2,l3):
    print i,j,k

Upvotes: 2

Lanaru
Lanaru

Reputation: 9721

No need to use zip, just add them together using the + operator. l1 + l2 + l3 creates a new list that is the combination of l1, l2 and l3 so you can simply loop through that, like so:

for f in l1+l2+l3:
    print(f)

Your use of the and operator is incorrect. The other reason why your code doesn't work is using commas (like l1, l2, l3) creates a tuple, which is a container that now holds your 3 lists. So when you try to loop through l1, l2, l3 it will loop through every element in that tuple (which are the lists) and not through every element in the lists as you intend.

Upvotes: 4

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