object's list index

[William Meyer]

hi,

    I need to get the index of an object in a list. I know that no two objects
in the list are the same, but objects might evaluate as equal. for example

list = [obj1, obj2, obj3, obj4, obj5]
for object in list:
    objectIndex = list.index(object)
    print objectIndex
 
prints 0, 1, 2, 3, 2 instead of 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 because obj3 == obj5. I could loop
through the list a second time comparing id()'s

for object in list:
    objectIndex = 0
    for i in list:
        if id(object) == id(i):
            break
        objectIndex += 1
    print objectIndex

but that seems like a real ugly pain. Somewhere, someplace python is keeping
track of the current index in list, does anyone know how to access it? Or have
any other suggestions?