#the values we want to iterate is in different lists #use zip to pack them from itertools import zip_longest xpts = [1,5,4,2,17] ypts = [101, 78, 37, 15, 62, 99] for x, y in zip(xpts, ypts): temp = (x,y) print(temp) a = [1,2,3] b = ['w','x','y','z'] for i in zip(a,b): print(i) print(i[0]) print(i[1]) print(type(i)) for i in zip_longest(a,b,fillvalue=0): print(i)#the values we want to iterate is in different