How do I iterate over two lists?

Question

I have troubles in using for loops in Python. I wrote this code:

x=5
people=['Mary','Joe']
genders=['she','he']

for person in people:
    print(person)
    for gender in genders:
        if x > 0:
            print("{} is happy".format(gender))

and the output is:

Mary
she is happy
he is happy
Joe
she is happy
he is happy

But I would like the output to be:

Mary
she is happy
Joe
he is happy

Is there a way to make the for loop iterate over first "Mary" and "she" and then "Joe" and "he" ?

I thank you in advance.

You can use zip, per below, or enumerate. Also, what you're calling 'gender' is not actually a gender; it's a (personal) pronoun. — jarmod
– jarmod, Commented Jul 26, 2021 at 16:40

score 4 · Accepted Answer · 2021-07-26 16:50:23Z

4

Why, you can go with zip(). Here is a cleaner solution.

people=['Mary','Joe']
genders=['she','he']
for person,gender in zip(people,genders):
    print(person)
    print("{} is happy".format(gender))

Output:

Mary
she is happy
Joe
he is happy

edited Jul 26, 2021 at 16:50

answered Jul 26, 2021 at 16:38

user15801675

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4 Comments

user15801675 Over a year ago

@Manuela. Most welcome. Consider upvoting and accepting the answer if it solves the issue

LearningAlgorithm Over a year ago

I have upvoted but I can accept the answer only in 7 minutes (it tells me so) @Sujay

user15801675 Over a year ago

@Manuela, no problem

Matthias Over a year ago

Manuela had meaningful names and you changed it to i and j. Why, oh why? Please change it back to person and gender.

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