getting an index in a for loop

[Erik Max Francis]

Chad Netzer wrote:

> Or the always-in-style, oldie-but-goodie method (from Python 1.x
> onwards):
> 
> s = 'abcdefg'
> for i in xrange( len( s ) ):
>     print i, s[i]

Note this solution also does not suffer from performance problem if the
sequence is truly large.

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