I'm just playing around with the iter function and I realize that I can use the iterator returned by it long after the original object has any name bound to it. Example:
>>>a=[1,2,3,4] >>>b=iter(a) >>>b.next() 1 >>>a[1]=99 >>>a[3]=101 >>>del a >>>b.next() 99 >>>b.next() 3 >>>b.next() 101 it seems as if the original object is never being garbage collected even though there is no name bound to it. Does the name bound to the iterator object count as a reference to the original object for garbage collection purposes? Is there some way to retrieve/manipulate the original object via the iterator? Just trying to understand how this all works. -thanks for any help you can give daryn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
