Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: FWIW, at one point, Guido rejected all variants of the idea. His first objection was that enumerate() is all about pairing values with sequence indices, so starting from anything other than zero is in conflict with the core concept. His second objection is that all variants can easily be misread as starting at the nth item in the sequence (much like islice() does now): enumerate(3, 'abcdefg') --> (3,'d') (4,'e') (5, 'f') (6, 'g'). The latter mis-reading becomes more likely for those who think of enumerate as providing indices. In fact, one of the suggested names for enumerate was "indices".
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