Gregory Petrosyan wrote:
> Hello!
> I have a question for the developer[s] of enumerate(). Consider the
> following code:
>
> for x,y in coords(dots):
> print x, y
>
> When I want to iterate over enumerated sequence I expect this to work:
>
> for i,x,y in enumerate(coords(dots)):
> print i, x, y
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't =( and I should use (IMHO) ugly
>
> for i,pair in enumerate(coords(dots)):
> print i, pair[0], pair[1]
>
> So, why enumerate() works this way
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
enumerate shouldn't behave differently for different types of items.
> and is there any chance of changing
> the behaviour?
No, not really.
Instead, try this:
for i, (x, y) in enumerate(coords(dots)):
print i, x, y
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