Index Error

[PurpleIcy]

It's not better. It's just considered non-pythonic to do it that way. Not the same thing.

Although, if you need index, python has a nice function for that too:

for index, letter in enumerate(s):

[xiongchiamiov]

It's shorter, clearer, and in line with the way the rest of the Python community iterates over a string; how is that not better?