Can I use index information inside the map function?

Question

Let\'s assume there is a list a = [1, 3, 5, 6, 8].

I want to apply some transformation on that list and I want to avoid doing it sequentially, so someth

Answer 1

You can use enumerate():

a = [1, 3, 5, 6, 8]

answer = map(lambda (idx, value): idx*value, enumerate(a))
print(answer)

Output

[0, 3, 10, 18, 32]