Ed Singleton wrote: > I roughly want to be able to do: > > for f, x in bunch_of_files, range(z): > > so that x iterates through my files, and y iterates through something else. > > Is this something I can do?
In the general case use zip(): for f, x in zip(bunch_of_files, range(z)): In this case, where the second item is just the index to the loop, use enumerate() instead of range() and zip() for x, f in enumerate(bunch_of_files): > If so, what would be the best way to create a range of indeterminate length? itertools.count() generates an "unlimited" sequence. > If not, is there a nice way I can do it, rather than than incrementing > a variable (x = x + 1) every loop? > > Or maybe can I access the number of times the loop has run? ('x = x + > 1' is so common there must be some more attractive shortcut). enumerate() > So far in learning Python I've founbd that when I feel you should be > able to do something, then you can. Yep :-) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor