“for loop” with two variables? [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you really just have lock-step iteration over a range, you can do it one of several ways:

for i in range(x):
  j = i
  …
# or
for i, j in enumerate(range(x)):
  …
# or
for i, j in ((i,i) for i in range(x)):
  …

All of the above are equivalent to for i, j in zip(range(x), range(y)) if x <= y.

If you want a nested loop and you only have two iterables, just use a nested loop:

for i in range(x):
  for i in range(y):
    …

If you have more than two iterables, use itertools.product.

Finally, if you want lock-step iteration up to x and then to continue to y, you have to decide what the rest of the x values should be.

for i, j in itertools.zip_longest(range(x), range(y), fillvalue=float('nan')):
  …
# or
for i in range(min(x,y)):
  j = i
  …
for i in range(min(x,y), max(x,y)):
  j = float('nan')
  …