On Tue, Jan 9, 2018, at 05:46, Nick Coghlan wrote: > If you view them as comparable to subprocess pipes, then it can be > surprising that they're not iterable when using a line-oriented > protocol. > > If you instead view them as comparable to socket connections, then the > lack of iteration support seems equally reasonable.
Sockets are files - there's no fundamental reason a stream socket using a line-oriented protocol (which is a common enough case), or a datagram socket, shouldn't be iterable. Why aren't they? Making sockets iterable would be a separate discussion, but I don't think this is necessarily an argument. And saying "I think you should be handling errors in some particular way, so we'll make the API more difficult to encourage this" seems a non-sequitur. The whole point of exceptions is that the error handling code doesn't need to be directly at the point of use but can be, say, a try/catch wrapped around the inner loop. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
