I was only talking about the two-argument version, iter(x, sentinel). Betcha you didn’t even know that existed. :-)
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:34 Paul Bryan <pbr...@anode.ca> wrote: > On Fri, 2021-03-19 at 10:22 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > I’m not convinced that we need aiter(x, sentinel) at all — for iter() it’s > mostly a legacy compatibility API. > > > I'm feel like I'm going to learn something today. To date, the pattern > I've used for getting the first item from an iterable: > > next(iter(i)) > > > What's the recommended alternative? > > Paul > > -- --Guido (mobile)
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