"mrquantum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sorry, was to hasty by saying "... don't support the iteration > protocol'! Sure they do, as the iter('SomeString') function or the > construction for c in 'SomeString' show. > > It's just not implemented by a __iter__ method of the string in question!
I am sure this will change in 3.0 and possibly 2.x. I believe the intention is that 'is iterable' will become the same as 'has __iter__()'. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list