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title: Python's Enumerate Function
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---
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## Overview
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`enumerate()` is a built-in function in Python. It is useful for iteration over a list or any other iterable.
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## Arguments
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`enumerate()` requires an iterable, and `start` as an optional parameter (it defines where the indexing starts).
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## Return Value
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Returns an enumerate object. If you call `list()` on it, you can see that each item in the object is a tuple – an index followed by the item in the iterable.
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## Usage Example
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animals = ['cat', 'dog', 'rabbit', 'fox', 'wolf'] # A list of animals.
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for index, item in enumerate(animals, start=20):
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print(index, item)
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### Output
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20 cat
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21 dog
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22 rabbit
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23 fox
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24 wolf
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#### More Information
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- <a href='https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#enumerate'>Python's Docs</a>
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