On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:29:10AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> But I also fail to see why you would be so draconian as to disallow
> truth testing of a query altogether. Your query looks like an
> iterator. There are tons of other iterators in the language, library
> and 3rd party code, and it would be madness to try to fix all of them
> in the way you suggest just because some users don't get the concept
> of iterators.
Seems me myself didn't get it:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 12:33:33PM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> This isn't consistent with iterators; e.g.:
>
> >>> x=iter([])
> >>> if x: print "yes"
> ...
> yes
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:29:10AM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> So I'm for #1 *and* #2.
I see now. Thank you!
Oleg.
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