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enumerate is easy to use: 

   1 for index, character in enumerate("hello"):
   2   print "#%d: %s" % (index, character)

...which prints out: 

#0: h
#1: e
#2: l
#3: l
#4: o

You can use it on just about any iterable sequence.

2026-02-14 16:14