Alternative for loop

Question

Alternative loop statement:
python
for i in range(len(shopping_list)):
    print("{}. {}".format(i, shopping_list[i]))

Does this seem cleaner?

Jennifer Nordell · Accepted Answer

Hi there! I actually really like that and do think it looks a bit cleaner. That being said, it doesn't really function like the one in the video as it will start the numbering at 0.  So assuming the first item in the shopping list is "bread", you will see output like:
```
0. bread
```
instead of...
```
bread
```
But that is easily fixed!  You can actually include a + 1 inside the print statement to take care of that.  Take a look:
```py
print("{}. {}".format(i + 1 , shopping_list[i]))
```
But I dare say you could even make that a little cleaner, and it is supported in workspaces but likely will not be introduced until later down the line. It's called an "f string". You can get that same output with this line.  Take a look:
```py
print(f"{i+1}. {shopping_list[i]}")
```
I think that last line is about as concise as you're going to get it.  Hope this helps and way to ask great questions! :sparkles:
edited for additional information
I don't really think you're at this stage yet, but you could also use the builtin function enumerate here.  You could rewrite that for loop like so:
```py
for index, value in enumerate(shopping_list, 1):
  print(f"{index}. {value}")
```
This takes every index and its corresponding value and prints them until it reaches the length of shopping_list. The 1 at the end of the arguments is the offset for the starting value of the index.

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Alternative for loop

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