lists....order...
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Wed Oct 9 20:09:56 EDT 2002
gabor wrote:
> a = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
> for item in a:
> print a
>
> will print 1 2 3 4 5 6?
> in other words, is it guarantied that for a list the elements will be
> enumerated in their order?
Yes. The ordering of elements within a list is significant; it won't
change on you unless you change it.
> 2. many times i use this construct:
> a = ["a","b","c","d"]
> for letter in a:
> dosomething..
> but now i really need the position of the letter in that list
> so i need an x, for which a[x] = letter...
>
> the only solution i could find:
> for index in range(len(a)):
> letter = a[index]
>
> is there a way to do that with the normal 'for letter in a' approach?
That's the customary approach. Another version is:
for element, index in zip(sequence, range(len(sequence))):
...
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