[Steve Holden] > You are assuming a relatively recent release of CPython. If you look at > the stuff that the effbot distributes you will see that most of it > supports CPython all the way back to 1.5.2.
Oh for cripes sake. The code I posted 1. works on all versions of cpython 2. works on all versions of jython 3. works on all versions of ironpython 4. never replaces the builtin enumerate > I don't think many of us > have the right to be telling Fredrik what's pythonic and what's not ... Who ever said anything like that? I never said anything about pythonicity. Read the thread again: All I said was "Here's what I use on jython 2.1". Fred picked a non-existent hole in my code by saying "using a user-defined enumerate is slower than using the builtin", implying that the code I posted replaced the builtin, which it never does. While the comment "using a user-defined enumerate is slower than using the builtin" may be true, it has no bearing on the code I posted, which is all I'm trying to say ... -- alan kennedy ------------------------------------------------------ email alan: http://xhaus.com/contact/alan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
