2010/8/24 Hrvoje Niksic <hrvoje.nik...@avl.com>: > The __length_hint__ lookup expects either no exception or AttributeError, > and will propagate others. I'm not sure if this is a bug. On the one hand, > throwing anything except AttributeError from __getattr__ is bad style (which > is why we fixed the bug by deriving our business exception from > AttributeError), but the __length_hint__ check is supposed to be an internal > optimization completely invisible to the caller of list().
__length_hint__ is internal and undocumented, so it can do whatever it wants. -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
