On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2008 08:20:51 am Georg Brandl wrote: >> I believe the following is a common use-case for enumerate() >> (at least, I've used it quite some times): >> >> for lineno, line in enumerate(fileobject): >> ... >> >> For this, it would be nice to have a start parameter for enumerate(). > > Why would it be nice? What would you use it for? > > The only thing I can think of is printing lines with line numbers, and > starting those line numbers at one instead of zero. If that's the only > use-case, should it require built-in support?
It's a common enough use-case, so I think it makes sense. With the cost being so minimal to add support I think this one use-case alone is enough to justify adding the support. -Brett _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
