Best way to have a for-loop index?

[Terry Hancock]

On 9 Mar 2006 16:32:24 -0800
andrewfelch at gmail.com wrote:
> I write a lot of code that looks like this:
> 
> for myElement, elementIndex in zip( elementList,
> range(len(elementList))):
>     print "myElement ", myElement, " at index:
>     ",elementIndex
> 
> My question is, is there a better, cleaner, or easier way
> to get at the element in a list AND the index of a loop
> than this?

In fact it is so common a need, there is a built-in
function called "enumerate" that does the 'zip' for
you:

for elementIndex, myElement in enumerate(elementList):
	print "myElement ", myElement, " at index: ",elementIndex

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Terry Hancock (hancock at AnansiSpaceworks.com)
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