[Python-Dev] Adding start to enumerate()

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Mon May 12 00:50:38 CEST 2008


Brett Cannon schrieb:
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> 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().
>> The changes are minimal -- okay for 2.6?
>>
> 
> Taking a new argument that has a default shouldn't be an issue. +1
> from me. I assume it is just going to start the count at that number,
> not advance the iterable to that point, right?

Exactly.

Georg

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