[Tutor] Beginner's question: Looping through variable & list simultaneously

[Rafael Knuth]

Hej there,

> Loop around your list using the enumerate builtin function and an
> appropriate value for start, see
> http://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#enumerate

thanks! That hint was very helpful, and I rewrote the program as
follows (I learned how to enumerate just yesterday and I figured out
you can do the same with a range(len(list)) ... so here's how I solved
my issue:

PopularCountries = ["Brazil", "China", "France", "India", "Vietnam"]
Year = 2009
Backpackers = 1000000
for Country in range(len(PopularCountries)):
    Year += 1
    Backpackers = Backpackers*1.15
    print("In %d there were %d backpackers worldwide and their most
popular country was %s." % (Year, Backpackers,
PopularCountries[Country]))

>>>
In 2010 there were 1150000 backpackers worldwide and their most
popular country was Brazil.
In 2011 there were 1322500 backpackers worldwide and their most
popular country was China.
In 2012 there were 1520874 backpackers worldwide and their most
popular country was France.
In 2013 there were 1749006 backpackers worldwide and their most
popular country was India.
In 2014 there were 2011357 backpackers worldwide and their most
popular country was Vietnam.

I will now try to further enhance my program by adding a second list
to the loop.
Again, thank you all!

Raf