How to perform list comprehension on the following two lists?

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This question has probably been asked here before but me being new to python and lack of better keywords to search led me to ask the question.

I have two lists:

list1 = ['John', 'Don', 'Sam']
list2 = ['Melissa', 'Amber', 'Liz']
couples = [x + ' and ' y for x in list1 y in list2] # I can't do that

My couples list should look like this:

['John and Melissa', 'Don and Amber', 'Sam and Liz']

How do I concatenate this two lists that way?

Thanks in advance

possible duplicate of [How can I iterate through two lists in parallel in Python?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1663807/how-can-i-iterate-through-two-lists-in-parallel-in-python) — Roger Fan, Aug 21 '14 at 19:59

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 21 '14 at 19:56

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>>> list1 = ['John', 'Don', 'Sam']
>>> list2 = ['Melissa', 'Amber', 'Liz']
>>> [' and '.join(i) for i in zip(list1, list2)]
['John and Melissa', 'Don and Amber', 'Sam and Liz']

answered Aug 21 '14 at 19:56

Cory Kramer

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 21 '14 at 19:56

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You can use zip() to iterate through both lists:

couples = [x + ' and ' + y for x, y in zip(list1, list2)]

edited Aug 21 '14 at 19:56

BrenBarn

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answered Aug 21 '14 at 19:55

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Padraic Cunningham · Answer 3 · 2014-08-21T20:01:46.803

zip both lists and use str.format

list1 = ['John', 'Don', 'Sam']
list2 = ['Melissa', 'Amber', 'Liz']
print ["{} and {}".format(*name) for name in zip(list1,list2)]
['John and Melissa', 'Don and Amber', 'Sam and Liz']

You can also use enumerate:

list1 = ['John', 'Don', 'Sam']
list2 = ['Melissa', 'Amber', 'Liz']
print ["{} and {}".format(name,list2[ind]) for ind, name in enumerate(list1)]
['John and Melissa', 'Don and Amber', 'Sam and Liz']

How to perform list comprehension on the following two lists?

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