I never want to iterate, but I love slice syntax and indexing. Don't think you can have that w/o being able to loop over it can you? Maybe I'm just thinking slow since I just woke up.
On Jun 15, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Tres Seaver <tsea...@palladion.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/14/2013 04:55 PM, R. David Murray wrote: >> This I sort of agree with. I've often enough wanted to know if >> something is a non-string iterable. But you'd have to decide if >> bytes/bytearray is a sequence of integers or a scaler... > > In fifteen years of Python programming, I have literally *never* wanted > to iterate over 'str' (or now 'bytes'). I've always considered the fact > that Python made them iterable by default (rather than e.g. defining a > method / property to get to an iterable "view" on the underlying string) > a wart and a serious bug magnet. > > > Tres. > - -- > =================================================================== > Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com > Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlG8Y7MACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6EbwCfYlC3JKL22HK7WgxJLAh9Gk2H > R4cAn2+ijAkebHuF92txeddBq99L/zqn > =bLkO > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > 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/donald%40stufft.io _______________________________________________ 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
