On Tue, 31 Aug 2021, 2:52 am Brett Cannon, <br...@python.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 2:01 PM Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> > So my question is whether the discrepancy between what `async for` >> > expects and what `aiter()` expects on purpose? >> > https://bugs.python.org/issue31861 <https://bugs.python.org/issue31861> >> > was the issue for creating aiter() and I didn't notice a discussion of >> > this difference. The key reason I'm asking is this does cause a >> > deviation compared to the relationship between `for` and `iter()` (which >> > does not require `__iter__` to be defined on the iterator, although >> > collections.abc.Iterator does). It also makes the glossary definition >> > being linked from >> > >> https://docs.python.org/3.10/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-async-for-statement >> > < >> https://docs.python.org/3.10/reference/compound_stmts.html#the-async-for-statement >> > >> > incorrect. >> >> PyIter_Check() only checks existence of __next__, not __iter__ (perhaps >> for performance reasons). >> > > Or maybe no one thought to require __iter__ for iterators? >
I don't think PyIter_Check is testing the formal definition of an iterator, I think it's just testing if calling __iter__ can be skipped (as you say, for performance reasons). I'm surprised iter() would skip calling __iter__ just because an object defines __next__, though. Even though "__iter__ is defined and returns self" is part of the iterator definition, it still feels like a leap from there to "if __next__ is defined, skip calling __iter__ in iter()". The optimisation that bypasses the __[a]iter__ method call feels more legitimate in the actual for loop syntax, it just feels odd to me if the builtin isn't forcing the call. Cheers, Nick. > >
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