Why I think range is a wart.

[ruud de rooij]

Max M <maxm at mxm.dk> writes:

> ruud de rooij wrote:
> 
> > perhaps lists should support .keys() and .items() for those operations
> > (analogous to dictionaries).
> 
> Yes if that doesn't conflict with anything it would be a very nice way
> to solve 99% of the cases where I typically use the range function:
> 
> theList = ['item1', 'item2', 'item3']
> subList = ['item4', 'item5', 'item6']
> for i, item in theList.items():
>      print item, sublist[i]
> 
> But it would not help much in list comprehensions unless they are rewritten:
> 
> newList = [(theList[i], sublist[i]) for i in range(len(theList))]

assuming .items() would work for lists, you could also write that as
follows (or is that what you meant with "unless they are rewritten"?):

[ (item, sublist[i]) for (item, i) in thelist.items() ]

        - ruud
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