> > [Antoon Pardon] > >> I don't see why the start index can't be accessible through > >> a method or function just like the length of a list is now. > >> > >> My favourite would be a range method so we would have > >> the following idiom: > >> > >> for i in lst.range(): > >> do something with lst[i] > > > > After going to all that trouble, you might as well also get the value at that > > position: > > > > for i, x in enumerate(lst): > > do something with lst[i] also known as x > > No you wouldn't, enumerate always starts with 0.
You don't get it. Your proposed list-like class indicates its start index. enumerate() can be made to detect that start value so that the above code always works for both 0-based and 1-based arrays. Raymond Hettinger -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
