Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Stephen, your class, or rather instances thereof when initialized with a sequence, follow the old iteration protocol. You might call them iterators in the generic sense, though I cannot remember whether we used 'iterator' much before the introduction of the new and now dominant iteration protocol. I am sure 'iterable' was introduced with the new protocol for objects with .__iter__ methods that return iterators, which in this context means an object with a .__next__ method and excludes .__getitem__ objects.
It would have been less confusing is we had disabled the old protocol in 3.0, but aside from the predictable confusion, it seemed better to keep it. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18558> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
