What is the ES6 equivalent of Python 'enumerate' for a sequence?

Python has a built-in function enumerate, to get an iterable of (index, item) pairs.

Does ES6 have an equivalent for an array? What is it?

def elements_with_index(elements): modified_elements = [] for i, element in enumerate(elements): modified_elements.append("%d:%s" % (i, element)) return modified_elements print(elements_with_index(["a","b"])) #['0:a', '1:b'] 

ES6 equivalent without enumerate:

function elements_with_index(elements){ return elements.map(element => elements.indexOf(element) + ':' + element); } console.log(elements_with_index(['a','b'])) //[ '0:a', '1:b' ] 

6 Answers

Yes there is, check out Array.prototype.entries().

const foobar = ['A', 'B', 'C']; for (const [index, element] of foobar.entries()) { console.log(index, element); }

Array.prototype.map

Array.prototype.map already gives you the index as the second argument to the callback procedure... And it's supported almost everywhere.

['a','b'].map(function(element, index) { return index + ':' + element; }); //=> ["0:a", "1:b"] 

I like ES6 too

['a','b'].map((e,i) => `${i}:${e}`) //=> ["0:a", "1:b"] 

make it lazy

However, python's enumerate is lazy and so we should model that characteristic as well -

function* enumerate (it, start = 0) { let i = start for (const x of it) yield [i++, x] } for (const [i, x] of enumerate("abcd")) console.log(i, x)

0 a 1 b 2 c 3 d 

Specifying the second argument, start, allows the caller to control the transform of the index -

for (const [i, x] of enumerate("abcd", 100)) console.log(i, x) 

100 a 101 b 102 c 103 d 

let array = [1, 3, 5]; for (let [index, value] of array.entries()) console.log(index + '=' + value);

Excuse me if I'm being ignorant (bit of a newbie to JavaScript here), but can't you just use forEach? e.g:

function withIndex(elements) { var results = []; elements.forEach(function(e, ind) { results.push(`${e}:${ind}`); }); return results; } alert(withIndex(['a', 'b']));

There's also naomik's answer which is a better fit for this particular use case, but I just wanted to point out that forEach also fits the bill.

ES5+ supported.

pythonic offers an enumerate function that works on all iterables, not just arrays, and returns an Iterator, like python:

import {enumerate} from 'pythonic'; const arr = ['a', 'b']; for (const [index, value] of enumerate(arr)) console.log(`index: ${index}, value: ${value}`); // index: 0, value: a // index: 1, value: b 

Disclosure I'm author and maintainer of Pythonic

as Kyle and Shanoor say is Array.prototype.entries()

but for newbie like me, hard to fully understand its meaning.

so here give an understandable example:

for(let curIndexValueList of someArray.entries()){ console.log("curIndexValueList=", curIndexValueList) let curIndex = curIndexValueList[0] let curValue = curIndexValueList[1] console.log("curIndex=", curIndex, ", curValue=", curValue) } 

equivalent to python code:

for curIndex, curValue in enumerate(someArray): print("curIndex=%s, curValue=%s" % (curIndex, curValue)) }