Nested For Loops Using List Comprehension

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John Howard picture John Howard · Sep 3, 2010 · Viewed 63.8k times · Source

If I had two strings, 'abc' and 'def', I could get all combinations of them using two for loops:

for j in s1:
  for k in s2:
    print(j, k)

However, I would like to be able to do this using list comprehension. I've tried many ways, but have never managed to get it. Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer

aaronasterling picture aaronasterling · Sep 3, 2010 
lst = [j + k for j in s1 for k in s2]

or

lst = [(j, k) for j in s1 for k in s2]

if you want tuples.

Like in the question, for j... is the outer loop, for k... is the inner loop.

Essentially, you can have as many independent 'for x in y' clauses as you want in a list comprehension just by sticking one after the other.

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