On 4/13/06, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I propose that strings (unicode/text) shouldn't be iterable.
I understand that there are use cases, but I can't remember seeing one
in real life. I have seen many uses for the container version
x in string
and of course many good uses of iteration over the results of a string
method (such as string.split()), but no good uses for iterating over a
string directly
for x in string
A special method to get a tuple (or immutable list) view would be a
good thing, as it would document that I was doing so intentionally.
(I wouldn't want to give up slicing, though, which might make the
no-iteration trickier.)
-jJ
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