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Dynamic enumration function
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enum.py
def enum(varnames, start=0):
return dict(zip(varnames, range(start, start + len(varnames))))
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kqr commented Nov 20, 2013

Or

from itertools import count

def enum(start, varnames):
    return dict(zip(varnames, count(start)))

or

def enum(start, varnames):
    return { n: i for (i,n) in enumerate(varnames,start=start) }

The latter being the most Pythonic, I think.

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