On 7/20/06, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > >On 7/20/06, Walter Dörwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>str and unicode don't have __iter__, list, tuple and dict do:
> >>Should that be fixed too? > >Yes, please. (In Python 2.6 if you can.) > Why is the a defect? Have we abandoned the notion of SeqIter > automatically wrapping any object with __getitem__()? Actually, the autowrapping was intended a backwards compatibility measure. We should make a conscious decision whether we should make it a permanent feature or not. (I also think that the two-argument form iter(function, sentinel) is not very successful or useful and might be dropped, but that's a separate issue.) -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
