[Python-Dev] PEP 276 (simple iterator for ints) (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Thu Jul 1 00:24:08 EDT 2004


Greg Ewing wrote:

"Chermside, Michael" <mchermside at ingdirect.com>:

>>> for i in len(myList): ... doSomethingWithIndexes(i) is simple and elegant. IMO it would be clearer, and equally elegant, to write this as something like for i in indices(myList): ... which is easily accomplished with the aid of a suitable definition for indices(). No language changes needed.

And I believe most of those use cases are better covered by enumerate() anyway.

Interesting that in the course of this discussion I've gone from 'nice idea' to 'no way!'

Cheers, Nick.

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