[Python-3000] PEP: rename it.next() to it.next(), add a next() built-in (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Mar 5 23:26:01 CET 2007


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On Mar 5, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:

Also I'm not sure I like this idea. It smells like an abuse of the notion of calling to me. One doesn't normally expect that calling a callable object has a side effect on the callable itself.

Perhaps, but I think there's a valid use case for calling "next"
explicitly, and I would really hate for that to be spelled
"it.next()".

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