hi, > Oh I see. You have to combine a couple of concepts but for this > example you'd say: > > name = 'james' # 'l' looks too much like the digit 1 > for i,c in enumerate(name): > print i, c > print i > > enumerate(name) generates the sequence > > (0,'j'), (1,'a'), (2,'m'), (3,'e'), (4,'s') > > and the above loop splits those tuples into two indexes i and c. > > You should probably read the tutorial and work through the examples. > If you get something wrong with this basic stuff, your computer won't > explode or anything like that, so try stuff out. Be more careful when > you start using library routines that can delete files ;).
Thanks, it just that I am afraid of coding that something works but ugly or inefficient. cheers, james -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
