[Python-Dev] PEP 0424: A method for exposing a length hint (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sun Jul 15 17:14:30 CEST 2012


On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:08:00 +0100 Mark Shannon <mark at hotpy.org> wrote:

What should happen if I am silly enough to do this: >>> list(itertools.count()) This will fail; it should fail quickly.

Why should it? AFAIK it's not a common complaint. You said it yourself: it's a silly thing to do.

Regards

Antoine.

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