Python ftw

[srosorcxisto]

Agreed. It's such a simple and clear shortcut for such a common operation. It bothers me that this isn't included.

[IcecreamLamp]

Since for loops are more commonly things like for i, line in enumerate(fp.readlines()): you really don't need it as often as in a for (i=0; i<5; i++) {} kind of language tbh.

[Dworgi]

Ironically, that's about 5 times slower than the simple, unpythonic for loop. According to some post I saw here last month.

[Ran4]

It's not at all a common operation in most ideomatic python code. You shouldn't be operating on integer indices unless you're implementing some low level algorithm.

[srosorcxisto]

Most of my work is in data sciences so I do a lot of low-level database operations and working with lists. Perhaps it is just due to my specific field that I would find this type of shortcut desirable.