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

[Bjoern Schliessmann]

Fredrik Lundh 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?

Regards,


Björn

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