You can get rid of that unpleasant indexing: (3.2) from itertools import cycle for colour, character in zip(cycle(colours), string): print(termc

You can get rid of that unpleasant indexing: (3.2) from itertools import cycle for colour, character in zip(cycle(colours), string): print(termcolor.colored(character, colour)) (2.7) from itertools import cycle, izip for colour, character in izip(cycle(colours, string): print termcolor.colored(character, colour)