Indexing Loops with enumerate()

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Indexing Loops with enumerate()

The enumerate() function adds a counter to an iterable and returns it as an enumerate object. This is useful when you need the index of each item while looping through a list.

snippet.py
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colors = ['red', 'green', 'blue']
 
for index, color in enumerate(colors):
    print(index)
    print(color)

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for index, color in enumerate(colors):

Starts a loop where 'index' gets the position and 'color' gets the item value.

print(index)

Prints the current numeric position starting from 0.

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