Only index needed: enumerate or (x)range?

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I would use enumerate as it’s more generic – eg it will work on iterables and sequences, and the overhead for just returning a reference to an object isn’t that big a deal – while xrange(len(something)) although (to me) more easily readable as your intent – will break on objects with no support for len…

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