In Python you can iterate over the list itself:
for item in my_list:
#do something with item
or to use indices you can use xrange():
for i in xrange(1,len(my_list)): #as indexes start at zero so you
#may have to use xrange(len(my_list))
#do something here my_list[i]
There's another built-in function called enumerate(), which returns both item and index:
for index,item in enumerate(my_list):
# do something here
examples:
In [117]: my_lis=list('foobar')
In [118]: my_lis
Out[118]: ['f', 'o', 'o', 'b', 'a', 'r']
In [119]: for item in my_lis:
print item
.....:
f
o
o
b
a
r
In [120]: for i in xrange(len(my_lis)):
print my_lis[i]
.....:
f
o
o
b
a
r
In [122]: for index,item in enumerate(my_lis):
print index,'-->',item
.....:
0 --> f
1 --> o
2 --> o
3 --> b
4 --> a
5 --> r