Terry J. Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
Dict views and range objects are *iterables* because they are based on
reusable information. Map, filter, and similar objects are *iterators*
because they are based on iterables that could be once-through
iterators. The built-in function
New submission from Jean-Michel Fauth [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
win XP sp2, Py3.0c2
I had to face an annoying problem when iterating over a map object.
With a range class, this works
r = range(5)
list(r)
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]
With dict_keys/values/items objects, the following works
d = {1: 'a',
Raymond Hettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
Feature :-)
You will get the expected result if you skip the step where you ran the
for-loop over r before running list(). Either listing or for-looping
will exhaust the iterator. This is how iterators work.
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nosy: +rhettinger
Jean-Michel Fauth [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
2008/11/17 Raymond Hettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raymond Hettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] added the comment:
Feature :-)
You will get the expected result if you skip the step where you ran the
for-loop over r before running list(). Either
