Why can't you assign to a list in a loop without enumerate?

Roberto Bonvallet Roberto.Bonvallet at cern.ch
Wed Nov 1 08:47:49 EST 2006


Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
>> what's wrong with using enumerate?  or a list comprehension?  or
>> some other of the many different ways you can use to build a list
>> from a set of values?
> 
> Shouldn't there be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to
> do it? 8)

The obvious one is to use enumerate.
TOOWTDI allows less obvious ways to exist.

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Roberto Bonvallet



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