[Python-Dev] iterator API in Py3.0 (original) (raw)

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sat Mar 4 22:31:26 CET 2006

At 12:05 AM 3/5/2006 +0300, Oleg Broytmann wrote:

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.

I'm not sure that "more object-oriented" should be equated with "good" in this context, or indeed any context. :) A function is no more or less polymorphic than a method in any case, especially if the function is normally delegating to a slot or special method in any case.

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