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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Mar 1 00:05:43 CET 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:

On 2/28/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> PEP 342 opted to extend the generator API instead (using "send") and leave the > iterator protocol alone for the time being. One of the main reasons for this was the backwards compatibility problems at the C level.

I'm really quite happy either way. Having the functionality available in some way is the important thing.

I'd still like to see next(x) / x.next() in some form in 3.0 for the sake of consistency, though.

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