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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue May 13 23:09:59 CEST 2008

"Duncan Booth" <duncan.booth at suttoncourtenay.org.uk> wrote in message news:Xns9A9DA3EB5E8EBduncanrcpcouk at 127.0.0.1... || If you are generating paginated output then a function to generate an | arbitrary page would likely want to enumerate starting at some value larger | than one. || Of course in that case you'll also want to skip part way through the data, | but I think it is more likely that you'll want to enumerate the partial | data (e.g. if it is a database query) rather than slice the enumeration.

Not if the data is split across multiple files. I remember editing and printing a book from multiple files. Decent word processors have an option to start page numbering at something other than 1. Much bigger memories perhaps make this less common now.

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