Greg Ewing schrieb: > Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > >> Just like getattr, two-argument next(iter, sentinel) >> returns sentinel if StopException is caught. > > +1. I've written a number of pieces of code where this > would have made things neater. Just about any place > where I've used .next() explicitly, in fact -- it > always seems awkward having to deal with StopIteration.
Indeed, you almost always have to have a try-except StopIteration- wrapper around "manual" calls to .next(). In many of these cases, a default value would make things nicer: +1. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
