Lists and Indices

[Mark McEahern]

> I currently use
>
> index=1
> for color in colors:
>     print '%d.  %s' % (index, color)
>     index += 1
>
> but that does not seem pretty to me;

You could wait for 2.3's enumerate(), otherwise, I'd spell this essentially
the way you said was unreadable:

  for i in range(len(colors)):
    item = colors[i]
    print "%d. %s" % (i, item)

what's so unreadable about it, I wonder?

// m

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