Simon Percivall wrote: > if the proposal is constrained to only allowing the *name at > the end, wouldn't a more useful behavior be to not exhaust the > iterator, making it similar to: > > > it = iter(range(10)) > > a = next(it) > > b = it > > or would this be too surprising?
It would surprise the heck out of me when I started with something that wasn't an iterator and ended up with b being something that I could only iterate and couldn't index. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
