Fixed a typo in my email address.

Updated 'Loop counter iteration' PEP 212.

pep-0000.txt

@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Owners
     Raymond, Eric            esr@snark.thyrsus.com
     van Rossum, Guido        guido@python.org
     Schemenauer, Neil        nas@arctrix.com
-    Schneider-Kamp, Peter    nownder@nowonder.de
+    Schneider-Kamp, Peter    nowonder@nowonder.de
     Warsaw, Barry            barry@digicool.com
     Wilson, Greg             gvwilson@nevex.com
     Wouters, Thomas          thomas@xs4all.net

pep-0212.txt

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ Version: $Revision$
 Author: nowonder@nowonder.de (Peter Schneider-Kamp)
 Status: Draft
 Type: Standards Track
-Python-Version: 2.1
 Created: 22-Aug-2000
+Python-Version: 2.1
 
 
 Introduction
@@ -52,13 +52,9 @@ Loop counter iteration
 
 The Proposed Solutions
 
-    There are two solutions that have been discussed.  One adds a
+    There are three solutions that have been discussed.  One adds a
     non-reserved keyword, the other adds two built-in functions.
-
-    A third solution would have been the addition of 'keys', 'items'
-    and 'values' methods to sequences, which enable looping over
-    indices only, both indices and elements, and elements only
-    respectively.
+    A third solution adds methods to sequence objects.
 
 
 Non-reserved keyword 'indexing'
@@ -103,6 +99,51 @@ Built-in functions 'indices' and 'irange'
             # work with index i and element e
 
 
+Methods for sequence objects
+
+    This solution proposes the addition of 'indices', 'items'
+    and 'values' methods to sequences, which enable looping over
+    indices only, both indices and elements, and elements only
+    respectively.
+
+    This would immensely simplify the idioms for looping over indices
+    and for looping over both elements and indices:
+
+        for i in sequence.indices():
+            # work with index i
+
+        for i, e in sequence.items():
+            # work with index i and element e
+
+    Additionally it would allow to do looping over the elements
+    of sequences and dicitionaries in a consistent way:
+
+        for e in sequence_or_dict.values():
+            # do something with element e
+
+
+Implementations
+
+    For all three solutions some more or less rough patches exist
+    as patches at SourceForge:
+
+        'for i indexing a in l': exposing the for-loop counter[3]
+        add indices() and irange() to built-ins[4]
+        add items() method to listobject[5]
+
+    All of them have been pronounced on and rejected by the BDFL.
+
+    Note that the 'indexing' keyword is only a NAME in the
+    grammar and so does not hinder the general use of 'indexing'.
+
+
+Backward Compatibility Issues
+
+    As no keywords are added and the semantics of existing code
+    remains unchanged, all three solutions can be implemented
+    without breaking existing code.
+
+
 Copyright
 
     This document has been placed in the public domain.
@@ -112,6 +153,9 @@ References
 
     [1] http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/for.html
     [2] Lockstep Iteration, pep-0201.txt
+    [3] http://sourceforge.net/patch/download.php?id=101138
+    [4] http://sourceforge.net/patch/download.php?id=101129
+    [5] http://sourceforge.net/patch/download.php?id=101178