How do I display the the index of a list element in Python? [duplicate]

Question

I've got the following code:

hey = ["lol", "hey", "water", "pepsi", "jam"]

for item in hey:
    print(item)

Do I display the position in the list before the item, like the following?

1 lol
2 hey
3 water
4 pepsi
5 jam

_{This is for a homework assignment.}

Answer 1

The best method to solve this problem is to enumerate the list, which will give you a tuple that contains the index and the item. Using enumerate, that would be done as follows.

In Python 3:

for (i, item) in enumerate(hey, start=1):
    print(i, item)

Or in Python 2:

for (i, item) in enumerate(hey, start=1):
    print i, item

If you need to know what Python version you are using, type python --version in your command line.