how to get the ordinal number in list

Tue Aug 12 21:45:15 EDT 2014

In article <mailman.12903.1407893523.18130.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like to look at SQL as a language that specifies an end result 
> without specifying how to get there

Well, sure, but sometimes the how to get there is a matter of 10x, or 
100x, or 1000x in performance.

I'm currently migrating a 3 TB database to a new 5 TB RAID array.  Our 
initial guess is it's going to take two weeks to finish :-(