Iterate over pairs in a list (circular fashion) in Python

def pairs(lst):
    i = iter(lst)
    first = prev = item = i.next()
    for item in i:
        yield prev, item
        prev = item
    yield item, first

Works on any non-empty sequence, no indexing required.

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