Why can't you assign to a list in a loop without enumerate?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:

>> what's wrong with using enumerate?  or a list comprehension?  or
>> some other of the many different ways you can use to build a list
>> from a set of values?
> 
> Shouldn't there be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to
> do it? 8)
 >
> Python Cookbook says "enumerate()", is this still correct with 2.5?

define "it".

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