According to the Python docs, once an iterator raises StopIteration, it should continue to raise StopIteration forever. Iterators that fail to behave in this fashion are deemed to be "broken":
http://docs.python.org/lib/typeiter.html I don't understand the reasoning behind this. As I understand it, an iterator is something like a stream. There's no constraint that once a stream is empty it must remain empty forever. Can somebody explain why "broken iterators" are broken? -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
