[Python-Dev] Adding start to enumerate() (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Mon May 12 01:42:45 CEST 2008


On Mon, 12 May 2008 08:20:51 am Georg Brandl wrote:

I believe the following is a common use-case for enumerate() (at least, I've used it quite some times):

for lineno, line in enumerate(fileobject): ... For this, it would be nice to have a start parameter for enumerate().

Why would it be nice? What would you use it for?

The only thing I can think of is printing lines with line numbers, and starting those line numbers at one instead of zero. If that's the only use-case, should it require built-in support?

-- Steven



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