Lists and Indices

[dougfort]

Lindstrom Greg - glinds wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to write out the (not necessarily unique) contents of a list
> with corresponding index numbers. Suppose I have
> 
> colors = ['red', 'green', 'blue', 'red']
> 
> and I want to see
> 
> 1.  red
> 2.  green
> 3.  blue

Here's one from O'Reilly's new 'Python Cookbook':

for index, color in zip(xrange(0, len(colors)), colors):
    print "%d. %s" % (index+1, color
> 4.  red
> 
> I currently use
> 
> index=1
> for color in colors:
>     print '%d.  %s' % (index, color)
>     index += 1
> 
> but that does not seem pretty to me; I don't like the "extra" lines
for the
> index variable.   I could do
> 
> for index in range(len(colors)):
> 	print '%d.  %s' % ( index, colors[index])
> 
> but I don't like that..it's not easily readable, IMHO.
> 
> If the entries were unique, I believe this would be easy, but how can I do
> it with non-unique entries?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Greg Lindstrom
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