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From: Noah Hall <enalicho@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:19:30 +0100
Subject: Re: Better way to iterate over indices?
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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Billy Mays <noway@nohow.com> wrote:
> I have always found that iterating over the indices of a list/tuple is no=
t
> very clean:
>
> for i in range(len(myList)):
> =A0 =A0doStuff(i, myList[i])

> I know I could use enumerate:
>
> for i, v in enumerate(myList):
> =A0 =A0doStuff(i, myList[i])
>
> ...but that stiff seems clunky.

You're not using it properly. Think about it. You're giving two names
- i and v. You've forgotten about v -

>>> for i, v in enumerate('fish'):
...     print i, v
...
0 f
1 i
2 s
3 h


HTH.