Pythonic way of iterating over ordered collections
Last Updated: February 3, 2018 12:20 PM UTC
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Joseph <joseph@josephbanks.me>
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Beginners often iterate over range(len(...)) because they look like Java or C-style loops, but this is almost always a bad practice in Python. 

for i in range(len(my_list)):
    do_something(my_list[i])
It's much simpler to iterate over the list (or other sequence) directly: 
for item in my_list:
    do_something(item)
Python has other solutions for cases when the index itself might be needed. To get the element at the same index from two or more lists, use zip. To get both the index and the element at that index, use enumerate.