I have two pools of strings and I would like to do a loop over both. For example, if I want to put two labeled apples in one plate I'll write:

basket1 = ['apple#1', 'apple#2', 'apple#3', 'apple#4']
    for fruit1 in basket1:

       basket2 = ['apple#1', 'apple#2', 'apple#3', 'apple#4']
       for fruit2 in basket2:

            if fruit1 == fruit2:
                print 'Oops!'

            else:
                print "New Plate = %s and %s" % (fruit1, fruit2)

However, I don't want order to matter -- for example I am considering apple#1-apple#2 equivalent to apple#2-apple#1. What's the easiest way to code this?

I'm thinking about making a counter in the second loop to track the second basket and not starting from the point-zero in the second loop every time.