On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Alexander Heger <pyt...@2sn.net> wrote:
> Yes, I am aware it will cause a lot of backward incompatibilities...
Tell me, would you retain the ability to subscript a string to get its
characters?
>>> "asdf"[0]
'a'
If not, you break a ton of code. If you do, they are automatically
iterable *by definition*. Watch:
class IsThisIterable:
def __getitem__(self, idx):
if idx < 5: return idx*idx
raise IndexError
>>> iti = IsThisIterable()
>>> for x in iti: print(x)
...
0
1
4
9
16
So you can't lose iteration without also losing subscripting.
ChrisA
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