What does enumerate() mean?

Question

What does for row_number, row in enumerate(cursor): do in Python?

What does enumerate mean in this context?

Answer 1

The enumerate function works as follows:

doc = """I like movie. But I don't like the cast. The story is very nice"""
doc1 = doc.split('.')
for i in enumerate(doc1):
     print(i)

The output is

(0, 'I like movie')
(1, " But I don't like the cast")
(2, ' The story is very nice')