>> Why is this 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.
It sure simplified writing extensions. And it provided a convenient guarantee that all sequences are iterable. I don't see a downside to keeping it. > (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.) This functionality should be moved to itertools. That will clear-up the odd function signature for iter(). As it stands now, the function/sentinel form suffers from invisibility. Raymond _______________________________________________ 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
