[Python-Dev] defaultdict and on_missing() (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 13:55:05 CET 2006

Greg Ewing wrote:

Raymond Hettinger wrote:

Code that uses next() is more understandable, friendly, and readable without the walls of underscores. There wouldn't be any walls of underscores, because y = x.next() would become y = next(x) The only time you would need to write underscores is when defining a next method. That would be no worse than defining an init or any other special method, and has the advantage that it clearly marks the method as being special.

I wouldn't mind seeing one of the early ideas from PEP 340 being resurrected some day, such that the signature for the special method was "next(self, input)" and for the builtin "next(iterator, input=None)"

That would go hand in hand with the idea of allowing the continue statement to accept an argument though.

Cheers, Nick.

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