[Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4) (original) (raw)
Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Tue Jan 28 13:37:14 CET 2014
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:06:57PM -0800, Larry Hastings wrote:
If I were writing it, it might well come out like this: [snip example]
+1 on this wording, with one minor caveat:
.. note: if "times" is specified using a keyword argument, and provided with a negative value, repeat yields the object forever. This is a bug, its use is unsupported, and this behavior may be removed in a future version of Python.
How about changing "may be removed" to "will be removed", he asks hopefully? :-)
-- Steven
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