#35046: BlankChoiceIterator causes AttributeError for some existing packages and
projects
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Reporter: Hazho Human | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: closed
Component: Utilities | Version: 5.0
Severity: Normal | Resolution: invalid
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Nick Pope):
Agreed. Also, returning `0` is incorrect and would likely break things
somewhere else. The true length would be `n+0` or `n+1` depending on the
length of the wrapped iterable and whether it already contains a blank
value. The whole purpose of this is to keep it lazy for certain use cases,
e.g. callable support, so it makes no sense to consume everything early to
determine a length.
The good news is that, from looking at the later pull request above, the
new functionality in Django seems to satisfy the needs of `django-
countries` w.r.t. making choices lazy for which it had to implement its
own solution based on undocumented/internal behaviours. Some problems also
arose in `django-filters`, but these were caught early and fixed. In the
long term, with something now standardised in core this will be more
robust going forward. (Many potential bugs internally were also ironed out
by normalizing consistently - lots of things around choices had been
bolted on over time.)
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