Mike Meyer wrote:

> So why the $*@& (please excuse my Perl) does "for x in 1, 2, 3" work?

because the syntax says so:

    http://docs.python.org/ref/for.html

> Seriously. Why doesn't this have to be phrased as "for x in list((1,
> 2, 3))", just like you have to write list((1, 2, 3)).count(1), etc.?

because anything that supports [] can be iterated over.

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