Question

I frequently write code like:

lines = open('wordprob.txt','r').readlines()
words = open('StdWord.txt','r').readlines()
i = 0
for line in lines:
    v = [eval(s) for s in line.split()]
    if v[0] > v[1]:
        print words[i].strip(),
    i += 1

Is it possible to avoid use variable i and make the program shorter?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can try to use enumerate,

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#looping-techniques

lines = open('wordprob.txt','r').readlines()
words = open('StdWord.txt','r').readlines()
for i,line in enumerate(lines):
        v = [eval(s) for s in line.split()]
        if v[0] > v[1]:
                print words[i].strip()