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Re: Better way to iterate over indices?

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On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Billy Mays <noway@nohow.com> wrote:
> I have always found that iterating over the indices of a list/tuple is not
> very clean:
>
> for i in range(len(myList)):
>    doStuff(i, myList[i])
>
>
>
>
> I know I could use enumerate:
>
> for i, v in enumerate(myList):
>    doStuff(i, myList[i])
>
> ...but that stiff seems clunky.

Why does enumerate seem clunky, other than the fact that you should
probably have
    doStuff(i,v)
instead of myList[i] in there? It's a bit more awkward than C's
syntax, but since the typical use case is just iteration anyway, it's
not a huge deal for those few cases where you actually need the
indices.

>
> Are there any better ways to iterate over the indices of a list /tuple?
>
> --Bill
> --
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>

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Better way to iterate over indices? Billy Mays <noway@nohow.com> - 2011-06-21 14:05 -0400
  Re: Better way to iterate over indices? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 12:15 -0600
  Re: Better way to iterate over indices? Noah Hall <enalicho@gmail.com> - 2011-06-21 19:19 +0100
  Re: Better way to iterate over indices? Benjamin Kaplan <benjamin.kaplan@case.edu> - 2011-06-21 11:20 -0700
  Re: Better way to iterate over indices? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-06-21 11:35 -0700

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