azrael wrote: > You know, sometimes it annoys me to write a for loop in Python. If we > use a list a=[1,2,3,4], and want to loop through it, Python offers the > next option >>>>for i in a: >>>> print i >>>> > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > > I love this. So simple and smooth. But what happens if we need also > the position of an object in a list. Then there comes this annoying > writing. > >>>> for i in range(len(a)): >>>> print a[i], i >>>> > 1 0 > 2 1 > 3 2 > 4 3 > > I think that it would be great if the Python language, which is a > totaly OOP language, could also use the index variable from the first > example and consider it as an object with a Object variable. I mean > the following. > >>>>for i in a: >>>> print i, i.index # i.index is my sugesstion >>>> > 1 0 > 2 1 > 3 2 > 4 3 > > I think that this would be great and we cou pass by this annoying > "range(len(a))" functions
Luckily for those who read either the documentation or this form regulary, the solution is already there (since python2.0 or so...) for i, item in enumerate(iterable): ... does the trick. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list