Guido van Rossum wrote:
>On 7/20/06, Walter Dörwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>str and unicode don't have __iter__, list, tuple and dict do:
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>[...]
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>>Should that be fixed too?
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>Yes, please. (In Python 2.6 if you can.)
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Why is the a defect? Have we abandoned the notion of SeqIter
automatically wrapping any object with __getitem__()?
IIRC, list and tuple have __iter__ simply as optimizations, it did not
change their functionality.
Raymond
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>>> class X:
def __getitem__(self, i):
if i < 5:
return i*5
raise IndexError
>>> for i in X():
print i
0
5
10
15
20
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