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

Paul Svensson paul-python@svensson.org
Fri, 29 Mar 2002 07:32:52 -0500 (EST)

On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Just van Rossum wrote:

But the reason for this proposal is to turn this idiom:

for i in range(len(seq)): element = seq[i] ... into this: for i, element in enumerate(seq): ... It's hardly useful for types that don't have numeric indices, so the fact that it does work with any iterator seems almost an implementation detail. I quite like the name enumerate. Hate itercount. I'm neutral on indexed.

Pardon me if I'm daft, but... What was wrong with seq.items() / seq.iteritems(), that they dropped out of the discussion ?

/Paul