Question

What is the best way to set a start index when iterating a list in Python. For example, I have a list of the days of the week – Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, … Saturday – but I want to iterate through the list starting at Monday. What is the best practice for doing this?

Answer 1

You can use slicing:

for item in some_list[2:]:
    # do stuff

This will start at the third element and iterate to the end.