"Steve Holden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <snip>
>>> [x for x in enumerate(a)] [(0, 9), (1, 4), (2, 3), (3, 5), (4, 2), (5, 6), (6, 7), (7, 1), (8, 2)] Just curious, Steve, but why do this list comprehension when: list(enumerate(a)) works just as well? In the interests of beating a dead horse into the ground (metaphor-mixing?), I looked at using map to one-line the OP's request, and found an interesting inconsistency. I tried using map(reversed, list(enumerate(a))), but got back a list of iterators. To create the list of tuples, I have to call the tuple constructor on each one, as in: map(tuple,map(reversed,list(enumerate(a)))) However, sorted returns a list, not a listsortediterator. Why the difference in these two builtins? I guess you can beat a dead horse into the ground, but you can't make him drink. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
