[Tutor] How to easily recover the current index when using Python-style for loops?

[Zachary Ware]

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 11:30 AM, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:
> Python 2.4.4, Solaris 10.
>
> a_list = [item1, item2, item3]
> for item in a_list:
>     print 'Item number', ???, 'is:', item
>
> Is there an easy, clever, Pythonic way (other than setting up a
> counter) to replace ??? with the current index of item in a_list?

Added in Python 2.3:
https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#enumerate

a_list = [item1, item2, item3]
for i, item in enumerate(a_list):
    print 'Item number', i, 'is:', item

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Zach