On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Jim Fulton <j...@zope.com> wrote: > There's a test for storage iterators that verifies that they raise > a special exception that extends StopIteration and IndexError. > This makes storage iterators a bit harder to implement than > necessary. > > Does anyone know of a reason why we should have to raise > a special error that raises IndexErrors?
Not really. It sounds like it's trying to do both new-style iterators (via __iter__ / next / StopIteration) and old-style iteration (via __getitem__ / IndexError) at once. >From http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html about "object.__getitem__(self, key)": Note for loops expect that an IndexError will be raised for illegal indexes to allow proper detection of the end of the sequence. Hanno _______________________________________________ For more information about ZODB, see the ZODB Wiki: http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/ ZODB-Dev mailing list - ZODB-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zodb-dev
