[Antoon Pardon]
> I don't see why the start index can't be accessible through
> a method or function just like the length of a list is now.
>
> My favourite would be a range method so we would have
> the following idiom:
>
>   for i in lst.range():
>     do something with lst[i]

After going to all that trouble, you might as well also get the value at that
position:

for i, x in enumerate(lst):
    do something with lst[i] also known as x


Raymond Hettinger


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