Elementary string-formatting

[Matt Nordhoff]

Odysseus wrote:
> Hello, group: I've just begun some introductory tutorials in Python. 
> Taking off from the "word play" exercise at
> 
> <http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/book010.html#toc96>
> 
> I've written a mini-program to tabulate the number of characters in each 
> word in a file. Once the data have been collected in a list, the output 
> is produced by a while loop that steps through it by incrementing an 
> index "i", saying
> 
> print '%2u %6u %4.2f' % \
> (i, wordcounts[i], 100.0 * wordcounts[i] / wordcounts[0])

This isn't very important, but instead of keeping track of the index
yourself, you can use enumerate():

>>> mylist = ['a', 'b', 'c']
>>> for i, item in enumerate(mylist):
...     print i, item
...
0 a
1 b
2 c
>>>

Err, it doesn't look like you can make it start at 1 though.

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