Iterate over pairs in a list (circular fashion) in Python

Question

The problem is easy, I want to iterate over each element of the list and the next one in pairs (wrapping the last one with the first).

I\'ve thought about two unpyth

Answer 1

To answer your question about solving for the general case:

import itertools

def pair(series, n):
    s = list(itertools.tee(series, n))
    try:
        [ s[i].next() for i in range(1, n) for j in range(i)]
    except StopIteration:
        pass
    while True:
        result = []
        try:
            for j, ss in enumerate(s):
                result.append(ss.next())
        except StopIteration:
            if j == 0:
                break
            else:
                s[j] = iter(series)
                for ss in s[j:]:
                    result.append(ss.next())
        yield result

The output is like this:

>>> for a in pair(range(10), 2):
...     print a
...
[0, 1]
[1, 2]
[2, 3]
[3, 4]
[4, 5]
[5, 6]
[6, 7]
[7, 8]
[8, 9]
[9, 0]
>>> for a in pair(range(10), 3):
...     print a
...
[0, 1, 2]
[1, 2, 3]
[2, 3, 4]
[3, 4, 5]
[4, 5, 6]
[5, 6, 7]
[6, 7, 8]
[7, 8, 9]
[8, 9, 0]
[9, 0, 1]