Are you familiar with the itertools module? itertools.product is designed for this purpose: http://docs.python.org/library/itertools#itertools.product Oscar. On 6 August 2012 16:52, Tom P <werotizy at freent.dd> wrote: > consider a nested loop algorithm - >> for i in range(100): > for j in range(100): > do_something(i,j) >> Now, suppose I don't want to use i = 0 and j = 0 as initial values, but > some other values i = N and j = M, and I want to iterate through all 10,000 > values in sequence - is there a neat python-like way to this? I realize I > can do things like use a variable for k in range(10000): and then derive > values for i and j from k, but I'm wondering if there's something less > clunky. > -- > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/python-list<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list> >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/attachments/20120806/4725011e/attachment.html>