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I have 2 lists and want to make a for loop depending on the number of items in that list, my code:

accounts = []
passwords = []

entry1= input('Accounts : ').split()
entry2= input('Passwords : ').split()

accounts.extend(entry1)
passwords.extend(entry2)

What I want to do:

for account in accounts and password in passwords:
    # do something that matchs accounts[n] with passwords[n] each loop
khelwood
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T.Galisnky
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    You want to iterate them in parallel, or as a cartesian product? – khelwood Jan 22 '18 at 15:45
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    Possible duplicate of [How to iterate through two lists in parallel?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1663807/how-to-iterate-through-two-lists-in-parallel) – quamrana Jan 22 '18 at 15:48

2 Answers2

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Take a look at zip:

https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/functions.html#zip

You would use it as

for (account, password) in zip(accounts, passwords):
    do_stuff_with_account_and_password(account, password)
lxop
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It sounds like you want the zip() function:

accounts = input('Accounts : ').split()
passwords = input('Passwords : ').split()

for account, password in zip(accounts, passwords):
    #do stuff with account and password
quamrana
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