That would require strings to also not be sequences, or to totally drop the sequence protocol. These are non-starters. They *will not* happen. Not they shouldn’t happen, or they probably won’t happen. They cannot and will not happen.
That is a much bigger break than they were even willing to make between 2 and 3. From: Python-ideas [mailto:python-ideas-bounces+tritium-list=sdamon....@python.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Heger Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2016 4:52 PM To: Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> Cc: python-ideas <python-ideas@python.org> Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] discontinue iterable strings I was not proposing a character type, only that strings are not iterable: for i in 'abc': print(i) TypeError: 'str' object is not iterable
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