[Python-Dev] PEP czar for PEP 3144? (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Mar 20 06:09:52 CET 2012

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I personally like having 'iter' in the name (e.g. iterkeys() -- note that we dropped this in Py3k because it's no longer an iterator, it's a dict view now. But I don't want to promote that style for ipaddr.py.

+1 from me too on having all methods that return iterators clearly indicating so. It's an important distinction, and it can be very confusing if some methods of an API return iterators and others don't with no easy way of remembering which is which.

-- Greg

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