Well, "for i in x" and other iteration constructs already call "iter ()" on their iterable. That's the point. Unless you want to manually iterate using "next ()" then the distinction between an iterable and an iterator is academic.
Sent from the æther. -------- Original message -------- From: Steven D'Aprano Date:20/04/2014 17:05 (GMT+00:00) To: python-dev@python.org Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] PEP 469: Restoring the iterkeys/values/items() methods On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 03:07:39PM +0000, Kristján Valur Jónsson wrote: > Does one ever use iteritems() et al without first invoking iter() on > it? I can't speak for others, but I never invoke iteritems *with* iter(). What would be the point? iteritems is documented as returning an interator. # never this for key, value in iter(mydict.iteritems()): ... # but this for key, value in mydict.iteritems(): ... > I.e. is it important that it is an iterator, rather than an > iterable? I think we could easily relax that requirement in the pep > and solve 99% of the use cases. And the other 1% of cases would be a land-mine waiting to blow the user's code up. Would it actually solve 99% of the use cases? Or only 90%? Or 50%? How do you know? In Python 2.7 iteritems() etc is documented as returning an iterator. That's a promise of the language, and people will rely on it. But they won't be able to rely on that promise in polygot 2+3 code -- exactly the use-case this PEP is trying to satisfy -- because the promise to return an iterator will be broken in 3. It would be actively misleading, since Python 3's iteritems() would return a view, not an iter, and it would fail at solving the backwards compatibility issue since views and iterators are not interchangeable except for the most basic use of iteration. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/kristjan%40ccpgames.com
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