[Python-Dev] iterator API in Py3.0 (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytmann phd at mail2.phd.pp.ru
Sat Mar 4 22:05:49 CET 2006
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On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 03:45:03PM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
At 09:34 AM 3/4/2006 -0800, Anna Ravenscroft wrote: >I think this is a really good point. next() is supposed to get used, by >coders, in regular code - so it shouldn't be next. I can understand >the desire for both forms, although that seems it would clutter things up >unnecessarily - particularly if the two do the same thing.
By this argument, we should be using ob.len() instead of len(ob), and ob.iter() instead of iter(ob).
Yes, I think it'd be more consistent and more object-oriented. After all we've switched from string.split(x, y) to x.split(y)...
Oleg.
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