In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I only included making iter a type to make it more symmetric with str > being a type. iter is currently a function, as a practical matter I wouldn't > mind if it doubled as a namespace but that might make others flinch. iter having the attributes currently residing as methods in itertools sounds just fine to me. I really don't like iter as a type instead of a function, though. It sounds like a cool idea at first glance, but then you think about it and realize that (unlike what happens with any class name) iter(x) is almost never going to return an object of that type. -- David Eppstein Computer Science Dept., Univ. of California, Irvine http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
