I have created an itertools cycle for the English alphabet using the code below, lowercase_letters_cycle = itertools.cycle(string.ascii_lowercase) If I run a for loop on this iterator object, the first iteration would give me "a" as the output because the cycle starts from "a". How can I make it so that cycle starts from any letter of my choice? One way that works is, def start_cycle(letter): lowercase_letters_cycle = itertools.cycle(lowercase_letters) letter_index = lowercase_letters.index(letter) index = 0 while True: if index == letter_index: break letter = next(lowercase_letters_cycle) index += 1 return lowercase_letters_cycle But is there any shorter method? Continue reading...