[Tutor] How to easily recover the current index when using Python-style for loops?

[boB Stepp]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 05/02/15 17:30, boB Stepp wrote:
>>
>> Python 2.4.4, Solaris 10.
>>
>> a_list = [item1, item2, item3]
>> for item in a_list:
>>      print 'Item number', ???, 'is:', item
>>
>> Is there an easy, clever, Pythonic way (other than setting up a
>> counter) to replace ??? with the current index of item in a_list?
>>
>
> try:
>
>>>> help( enumerate() )
>
> It returns the index and item and you can specify the
> starting index if you don't like zero.

Thanks, Alan! In this instance I am happy with zero, but the link Zach
provided says that changing the starting index wasn't implemented
until Python 2.6.



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boB