On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Mon, 12 May 2008 08:20:51 am Georg Brandl wrote:
I believe the following is a common use-case for enumerate() (at least, I've used it quite some times):
for lineno, line in enumerate(fileobject): ...
For this, it would be nice to have a start parameter for enumerate().
Why would it be nice? What would you use it for?
The only thing I can think of is printing lines with line numbers, and starting those line numbers at one instead of zero. If that's the only use-case, should it require built-in support?
It's a common enough use-case, so I think it makes sense. With the cost being so minimal to add support I think this one use-case alone is enough to justify adding the support. -Brett