Increment integer in print statement

Question

I have this piece of code in python 3:

i=0
for item in splitDict(Team, 3):
    i+=1
    print("{1} #{0}".format(i,item))

What I'd like to do is:

i=0
for item in splitDict(Team, 3):
    print("{1} #{0}".format(i+=1,item))

Notice I've put the increment into the format statement. But when I run it I get the error:

print("{1} #{0}".format(i+=1,item))
                              ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

My question is how can I get it to increment in the print statement?

Answer 1

Clearly you are really wanting to use enumerate to solve your problem. But to answer the specific question of "how can I increment i within the print statement" ... then you can do the following very ugly thing (its not strictly within):

i=0
for item in splitDict(Team, 3):
    i += print("{1} #{0}".format(i + 1, item)) or 1

But you shouldn't. Use enumerate:

for i, item in enumerate(splitDict(Team, 3)):
    print("{1} #{0}".format(i, item))