I did learn something today! 🙂 On Fri, 2021-03-19 at 10:37 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote: > 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 > >
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