On Oct 4, 10:53 pm, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, mapping indexes to names should be more useful: > > >>> aNames = dict(enumerate(['foo', 'bar'])) > >>> aNames > > {0: 'foo', 1: 'bar'}
If you are right that a map from indices to name is best, there's no need for a dict: the original list already provides such a mapping. -- Paul Hankin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list