Sept. 20, 2005
11:23 p.m.
Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
On Tuesday 20 September 2005 17:49, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I realize that this was a deliberate feature, and that it exists in 2.4 as well as in 2.4.1 and will in 2.4.2; yet, I'm not sure I *like*
I wasn't paying any attention at the time, so I don't know what was discussed. Some discussion here just now leads me to believe that at least two of us here (including myself) think iterators shouldn't have length at all: they're *not* containers and shouldn't act that way.
In any case, it's simple to get the 2.3 behaviour back - just add __nonzero__. I think that could validly be considered a bugfix. Tim Delaney