On 6/15/2013 8:53 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
In fifteen years of Python programming, I have literally *never* wanted to iterate over 'str' (or now 'bytes').
If so, it is because you have always been able to use pre-written methods and functions that internally do the iteration for you.
> 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)
.__iter__ is that method. But this is off-topic for pydev. -- Terry Jan Reedy _______________________________________________ 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
