Getting number of iteration

[Mike Meyer]

Bill Mill <bill.mill at gmail.com> writes:

> On 5/6/05, Florian Lindner <Florian.Lindner at xgm.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> when I'm iterating through a list with:
>> 
>> for x in list:
>> 
>> how can I get the number of the current iteration?
> Earlier:
>
> n = 0
> for x in lst:
>     print "iteration %d on element %s" % (n, x)
>     n += 1

Just for the record, the old idiom was:

for n in xrange(len(lst)):
    x = lst[n]
    print "iteration %d on element %s" % (n, x)

    <mike
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