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iright? Something likecounterorindexseems unconventional and unnecessarily verboseIndex can be useful but start looking for mapping and sorting functions. Or foreach. If you really must index, sure go use index or I if it's conventionally understood. But reading something like for I in e where p == r.status is really taxing to make sense of
Honest question: is there a mapping function that handles the case where you need to loop through an iterable, and conditionally reference an item one or two steps ahead in the iterable?
Not that I'm aware of but that's a condition where you're thinking with an index. What's the difference you're looking for?
Something like parsing a string that could have command codes in it of varying length. So I guess the difference is, is this a 1-, 2-, or 3-character code?
I have something like this in a barcode generator and I keep trying to find a way to make it more elegant, but I keep coming back to index and offset as the simplest and most understandable approach.
So you could generate lists of 1, 2, and 3 character code items rather than looking at index +1 or something.