On 3/5/07, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Ditto. Also notice the (in some sense ironic) complementary symmetry with iter(function, sentinel). -- --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
