[Python-Dev] Re: PEP 279 revisited (original) (raw)

Just van Rossum just@letterror.com
Wed, 24 Apr 2002 20:53:06 +0200

Alex Martelli wrote:

Apart from this, "indices" suggests you're getting ONLY indices -- while when you iterate on this type you get indices AND contents.

Neil Schemenauer wrote:

Ah, I misunderstood what this unnamed function does. I was thinking it works like .keys() on dictionaries. You're telling me it works like ..items(). In that case I don't like enumerate() or itemize(). :-(

Eh, this is the definition from the PEP:

def enumerate(collection):
    'Generates an indexed series:  (0,coll[0]), (1,coll[1]) ...'     
    i = 0
    it = iter(collection)
    while 1:
        yield (i, it.next())
        i += 1

(And enumerate() gets a +1 from me.)

Just