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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Mar 6 19:20:41 CET 2007


On 3/5/07, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

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.

Ditto.

Also notice the (in some sense ironic) complementary symmetry with iter(function, sentinel).

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