python - Count iterations in while loop

Question

Is there a way in Python to automatically add an iteration counter to a while loop?

I'd like to remove the lines count = 0 and count += 1 from the following code snippet but still be able to count the number of iterations and test against the boolean elapsed < timeout:

import time

timeout = 60
start = time.time()

count = 0
while (time.time() - start) < timeout:
    print 'Iteration Count: {0}'.format(count)
    count += 1
    time.sleep(1)

Answer 1

The cleanest way is probably to convert this to an infinite for loop and move the loop test to the start of the body:

import itertools

for i in itertools.count():
    if time.time() - start >= timeout:
        break
    ...