Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > > It will be nice somewhere in deep clarify > > for experts what happens with list iterator if the list changed.
Resist the urge to over-specify. Unless the behavior is tested and known to be consistent across all implementations, I'm content with the current docs: "Note There is a subtlety when the sequence is being modified by the loop...." Chris's currently patch seems reasonable to me and I don't think anything further is a good idea. With nearly any data structure in any language, most programmers learn to be cautious about and generally avoid looping over a structure while mutating it. Adding yet more documentation details won't make the issue go away. I recommend posting the current patch and closing this issue to be done with it. ---------- nosy: +rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16225> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
