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

Of course, you can always use a deque:

from collections import deque
from itertools import *

def pairs(lst, n=2):
    itlst = iter(lst)
    start = list(islice(itlst, 0, n-1))
    deq = deque(start, n)
    for elt in chain(itlst, start):
        deq.append(elt)
        yield list(deq)