[Python-Dev] Negative times behaviour in itertools.repeat for Python maintenance releases (2.7, 3.3 and maybe 3.4) (original) (raw)

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Jan 28 15🔞23 CET 2014


On 01/28/2014 04:37 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

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? :-)

+1

-- Ethan



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