count in 'for ... in ...'

[Cliff Wells]

On Friday 09 November 2001 14:37, DeVerter at robinsonmechanical.com wrote:
> Try this.
>
> for s in my_list:
>      print my_list.index(s), ".", s
>
> This way you don't need a counter variable.
>

I'm guessing that list.index() does a linear search through the list, so this 
would degrade performance pretty badly.  Additionally, if there are duplicate 
items in the list, you'll get the first one every time.

Regards,

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Cliff Wells
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