Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net>:
>
> [Guido]
> > ...
> > So enumerate() it is. (Specifically not enum() because of the C/C++
> > meaning of that word.)
>
> The C/C++ meaning isn't a barrier to me: a C enum decl without embedded '='
> must associate 0 with the first name, 1 with the second name, and so on.
> Indeed, if the Python enum returned pairs in (value, index) order,
>
> dict(enum(['apple', 'pear', 'godzilla'])
>
> would create the dict
>
> {'apple': 0, 'pear': 1, 'godzilla': 2}
>
> which is about as close to the C
>
> enum {apple, pear, godzilla};
> /* now apple==0, pear==1, godzilla==2 */
>
> as you can get with a Python function.
+1
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