> It isn't really well-defined, since enumerate can operate on infinite
> iterators, and you cannot reverse an infinite stream.
It is well defined on any iterable that itself is reversible and has defined length. For standard types that's lists, strings, dictionary iterators and some of the collections (deque, dictionary-based counter).
> Could you please provide evidence that this feature would be quite
> useful? How much usecases can you find in the stdlib?
Couldn't find any usecase in stdlib. I could find a usecase in scikit-learn:
in case file gets changed, here is a copy:
for i in reversed(range(len(estimators))):
name = names[i]
if name in namecount:
names[i] += "-%d" % namecount[name]
namecount[name] -= 1
It can indeed be that one doesn't have to reverse enumeration very often in practice. It can also be that people just express their ideas differently knowing it doesn't work in straight-forward way.
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Ilya Kamenshchikov