Iterative printing over parallel lists to print columns in Python

Question

I have vsort and vsorta, both lists with equal numbers of items that should be right next to each other (about 250 elements per list). I want to print them as parallel columns, like so:

>>> for x,y in vsort,vsorta:
...     print x, y
... 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ValueError: too many values to unpack
>>> 

Is there a way around this error?

Answer 1

Try:

for x, y in zip(vsort, vsorta):
       print x, y

zip takes some number of lists and makes them into one list of tuples.