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for x in y, type iteration in python. Can I find out what iteration I'm currently on?
Iteration count in python?

Kind of hard to explain, but when I run something like this:

fruits = ['apple', 'orange', 'banana', 'strawberry', 'kiwi']

for fruit in fruits:
    print fruit.capitalize()

It gives me this, as expected:

Apple
Orange
Banana
Strawberry
Kiwi

How would I edit that code so that it would “count” the amount of times it’s performing the for, and print this?

1 Apple
2 Orange
3 Banana
4 Strawberry
5 Kiwi

Answer 1

for i,fruit in enumerate(fruits, 1):
    print i, fruit.capitalize()

will do what you want and print:

1 Apple
2 Orange
3 Banana
4 Strawberry
5 Kiwi

By default enumerate() will start generating an index with 0 if not specified, but you can specify the starting value as shown.