[Python-ideas] Consider making enumerate a sequence if its argument is a sequence
M.-A. Lemburg
mal at egenix.com
Wed Sep 30 20:11:00 CEST 2015
On 30.09.2015 19:19, Neil Girdhar wrote:
> I guess, I'm just asking for enumerate to go through the same change that
> range went through. Why wasn't it a problem for range?
range() returns a list in Python 2 and a generator in Python 3.
enumerate() has never returned a sequence. It was one
of the first builtin APIs in Python to return a generator:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0279/
after iterators and generators were introduced to the language:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0234/
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0255/
The main purpose of enumerate() is to allow enumeration of
objects in a sequence or other iterable. If you need a sequence,
simply wrap it with list(), e.g. list(enumerate(sequence)).
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