Op 2005-04-21, Raymond Hettinger schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [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
No you wouldn't, enumerate always starts with 0. So if you write a class with list-like behaviour except that the start index can be different from 0, enumerate is useless because lst[i] won't be x in that case. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
