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iterables include all sequence types (such as :class:`list`, :class:`str`, |
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and :class:`tuple`) and some non-sequence types like :class:`dict`, |
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:term:`file objects `, and objects of any classes you define |
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- with an :meth:`__iter__` or :meth:`__getitem__` method. Iterables can be |
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+ with an :meth:`__iter__` method or with a :meth:`__getitem__` method |
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+ that implements :term:`Sequence` semantics. |
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+ Iterables can be |
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used in a :keyword:`for` loop and in many other places where a sequence is |
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needed (:func:`zip`, :func:`map`, ...). When an iterable object is passed |
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as an argument to the built-in function :func:`iter`, it returns an |