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concatenating 2 items at a time in a python list
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First problem is that your for loop seems extraneous. You're not using the index variable later.

Your while loop is close, but you're slicing it incorrectly. You want the later value first, you've written data[ind+1:ind]. But since the default step is 1 (a positive number), the slice never works. Better would be to write them as two different accesses: data[ind+1], data[ind] and combine them.

Tweaking it...

import string
data = string.ascii_lowercase[:8]

ind = 0
while ind < len(data):
    print("".join(data[ind+1] + data[ind]))
    ind += 2
Output:
ba dc fe hg
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RE: concatenating 2 items at a time in a python list - by bowlofred - Oct-21-2020, 08:21 AM

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