On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:14:09 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: > Iterators are intended for 'iterate through once and discard' usages.
Also for reading files, which are often seekable. I don't disagree with the rest of your post, I thought I'd just make an observation that if the data you are iterating over supports random access, it's possible to write an iterator that also supports random access. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
