"John Fouhy" <john at fouhy.net> wrote >> for index, item in [9,8,7,6]: >> print index, item >> >> 0 9 >> 1 8 >> 2 7 >> 3 6 > > You mean: > > for index, item in enumerate([9,8,7,6]): > print index, item Oops, yes, thanks for catching that. It was fairly fundamental to the discussion! Alan G