On 13 apr 2006, at 20.01, Ian Bicking wrote: > I propose that strings (unicode/text) shouldn't be iterable. > Seeing this: > > <ul> > <li> i > <li> t > <li> e > <li> m > <li> > <li> 1 > </ul> > > a few too many times... it's annoying. Instead, I propose that > strings > get a list-like view on their characters. Oh synergy! > > Thus you would do: > > for c in a_string.chars(): > print c
The best scenario would be if strings were like they are now, except that to iterate you'd have to write iter(strobj). This would obviously require some changes to how iterability is determined, though. //Simon _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
