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Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:20:41 -0700
Subject: 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 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.

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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