[Python-Dev] Lockstep iteration - eureka! (original) (raw)

Paul Prescod paul@prescod.net
Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:19:05 -0500

Just van Rossum wrote:

... for indexing in : ...

Let me throw out another idea. What if sequences just had .items() methods?

j=range(0,10)

for index, element in j.items(): ...

While we wait for the sequence "base class" we could provide helper functions that makes the implementation of both eager and lazy versions easier.

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