Best way to have a for-loop index?

[Michael Spencer]

andrewfelch at gmail.com wrote:
> I write a lot of code that looks like this:
> 
> for myElement, elementIndex in zip( elementList,
> range(len(elementList))):
>     print "myElement ", myElement, " at index: ",elementIndex
> 
> 
> My question is, is there a better, cleaner, or easier way to get at the
> element in a list AND the index of a loop than this?
> 
> TIA,
> Andrew
> 

enumerate(iterable)

Return an enumerate object. iterable must be a sequence, an iterator, or some 
other object which supports iteration. The next() method of the iterator 
returned by enumerate() returns a tuple containing a count (from zero) and the 
corresponding value obtained from iterating over iterable. enumerate() is useful 
for obtaining an indexed series: (0, seq[0]), (1, seq[1]), (2, seq[2]), .... New 
in version 2.3

Michael