MRAB wrote: > So it's defined behaviour that an exhausted iterable will always raise > StopIteration no matter how many times it's asked for the next value?
That is not enforced. However, quoting http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0234/ """ Iterator implementations (in C or in Python) should guarantee that once the iterator has signalled its exhaustion, subsequent calls to tp_iternext or to the next() method will continue to do so. """ Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
