Counting nested loop iterations

[Derek Basch]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> what's kludgy with using a counter to count things ?

Ohhh, nothing in particular. Just seeing if there is a better way to do
it.

> (the real question here is of course why you need the counter.  what's
> the loop doing?  if the code you posted is all you have, you can replace
> it with index = sum(len(animal) for animal in zoo), but I assume you want
> to do more stuff in there...)
>
> </F>

Yes, I am doing more. Your example assumes that all that animals have
the same amount of colors. Not a bad assumption considering I didn't
say anything about that. Looks like good old counters are they way to
go then.