Steven D'Aprano wrote:
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.
it's a design guideline, not an absolute rule.
but I disagree that an iterator is "something like a stream". it's
rather "something like a pointer or an index", that is, an object that
helps you iterate over all members in a collection.
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