Counting nested loop iterations

[Fredrik Lundh]

Derek Basch wrote:

> What is the best way to count nested loop iterations? I can only figure
> to use an index but that seems kludgy.
>
> index = 0
> for animal in zoo:
>     for color in animal:
>         index += 1

what's kludgy with using a counter to count things ?

(the real question here is of course why you need the counter.  what's
the loop doing?  if the code you posted is all you have, you can replace
it with index = sum(len(animal) for animal in zoo), but I assume you want
to do more stuff in there...)

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