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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Mar 5 23:45:18 CET 2007


Ka-Ping Yee wrote:

Just like getattr, two-argument next(iter, sentinel) returns sentinel if StopException is caught.

+1. I've written a number of pieces of code where this would have made things neater. Just about any place where I've used .next() explicitly, in fact -- it always seems awkward having to deal with StopIteration.

-- Greg



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