Is there a nicer way to do this?

Paul Hankin paul.hankin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 18:11:48 EDT 2007


On Oct 4, 10:53 pm, "Terry Reedy" <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> However,  mapping indexes to names should be more useful:
>
> >>> aNames = dict(enumerate(['foo', 'bar']))
> >>> aNames
>
> {0: 'foo', 1: 'bar'}

If you are right that a map from indices to name is best, there's no
need for a dict: the original list already provides such a mapping.

--
Paul Hankin




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