Why I think range is a wart.

[Fredrik Lundh]

Daniel Dittmar wrote:

> # if whatever contains only refs to mylist [index]
> for element in mylist:
>     <whatever>
>
> # if you really need the index
> def listIndices (list):
>     return range (len (list))
>
> for index in listIndices (mylist):
>     <whatever>

note that

    index = 0
    for item in mylist:
        <whatever>
        index += 1

is faster than

    for index in range(len(mylist)):
        item = mylist[index]
        <whatever>

> # my favourite
> for index, element in IndexAndElement (mylist):
>     <whatever>

you might prefer that one, but it's perfectly possible that your
users might be a bit happier if you used the += variant...

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