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• how do I work through an array and change a particular element?

I want to change an element in an array during a loop:

 lines=open("/etc/fstab","r").readlines()
 for line in lines:
    if line.split()[1]=="/": 
       line="# "+line

Now that does not change the contents of the array (commenting out a particular line in the file). I know you can easily make a loop counter, an d add i=i+1, but isn't there a better way?

== Answer== Try using the enumerate builtin.

 lines=open("/etc/fstab","r").readlines()
 for index,line in enumerate(lines):
    if line.split()[1]=="/": 
       lines[index] ="# "+line

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