On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > >>>> I think in either case a check in >>>> PyIter_Next() would cover most cases >> >>> If that's acceptable, then the check might as well >>> be for None as the StopIteration value, and there's >>> no need for a new exception. >> >> I don't understand this. > > Maybe I misunderstood what you were saying. What > check were you suggesting to perform in PyIter_Next?
I now realize what you were saying. You said effectively "the check added to PyIter_Next() might as well check whether the value attribute of the StopIteration is not None", but due to PyCon tiredness last night my brain's English parser didn't come up with any meaningful parse of what you wrote. But it's been answered already -- we can't change the meaning of StopIteration() with a value unequal to None, so it has to be a separate exception, and it should not derive from StopIteration. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
