[pylucene-dev] why does iterating Hits and IndexReaders give (i, doc)?

[Steven Bethard]

I couldn't figure out the rationale for having Hits and IndexReader
objects generate index/document tuples when iterated instead of simply
generating the documents.  This makes the distinctly unlike Python
lists, where to get such behavior you'd use enumerate like::

    for i, doc in enumerate(hits):
        ...

I assume this was discussed somewhere, but I couldn't find the
discussion.  Could someone point me there?

Thanks,

Steve

P.S. This is my first time posting to the list, so I figured I should
give a brief introduction.  I'm a Ph.D. student working in natural
language processing at the University of Colorado at Boulder.  I've
used PyLucene a bit, but not extensively.  My question above is mainly
out of curiosity about the design decisions of PyLucene.
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