Issue 1471291: Forbid iteration over strings (original) (raw)

Issue1471291

Created on 2006-04-16 13:43 by gvanrossum, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (2)
msg50021 - (view)	Author: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum) *	Date: 2006-04-16 13:43
This was proposed on the list. It turned out to be easy to implement the basic feature (iter() only calls __iter__ and doesn't fall back on __getitem__) but a disaster to use -- even after extensive fixes to the sre compiler and smaller fixes to half a dozen other modules, 120 tests were failing. I'm saving the diffs here for posterity.
msg50022 - (view)	Author: Georg Brandl (georg.brandl) *	Date: 2006-04-30 08:31
Logged In: YES user_id=849994 Marking as Rejected as this was included in PEP 3099.