[Guido] > I strongly feel that this needs to be corrected in 2.5. Iterators > should have neither __len__ nor __nonzero__.
Right. I'll get it fixed-up. [Terry Reedy] > I presume there were two reasons: internal efficiency of > preallocations > (list(some_it) for example) [Guido] > This could have been implemented without making the > implementation details public. I see a way to do that by renaming the __len__ method to some private name for internal use. This would preserve the performance gains while still restoring the public API. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
