[Python] Way to iterate two items at a time in a list?

I am wondering if there is a better way to iterate two items at a time in a list. I work with Maya a lot, and one of its commands (listConnections) returns a list of alternating values. The list will look like [connectionDestination, connectionSource, connectionDestination, connectionSource]. To do anything with this list, I would ideally like to do something similar to:

for destination, source in cmds.listConnections():
print source, destination


You could, of course just iterate every other item in the list using [::2] and enumerate and source would be the index+1, but then you have to add in extra checks for odd numbered lists and stuff.

The closest thing I have come up with so far is:

from itertools import izip
connections = cmds.listConnections()
for destination, source in izip(connections[::2], connections[1::2]):
print source, destination


This isn't super important, as I already have ways of doing what I want. This just seems like one of those things that there should be a better way of doing it.

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