I was only talking about the two-argument version, iter(x, sentinel). Betcha you didn’t even know that existed. :-)

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:34 Paul Bryan <pbryan@anode.ca> wrote:

On Fri, 2021-03-19 at 10:22 -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

I’m not convinced that we need aiter(x, sentinel) at all — for iter() it’s mostly a legacy compatibility API.

I'm feel like I'm going to learn something today. To date, the pattern I've used for getting the first item from an iterable:

next(iter(i))

What's the recommended alternative?

Paul