On 05/01, Stefan Behnel wrote:
Yury Selivanov schrieb am 01.05.2015 um 20:52:
I don't like the idea of combining __next__ and __anext__. In this case explicit is better than implicit. __next__ returning coroutines is a perfectly normal thing for a normal 'for' loop (it wouldn't to anything with them), whereas 'async for' will interpret that differently, and will try to await those coroutines.
Sure, but the difference is that one would have called __aiter__() first and the other __iter__(). Normally, either of the two would not exist, so using the wrong loop on an object will just fail. However, after we passed that barrier, we already know that the object that was returned is supposed to obey to the expected protocol, so it doesn't matter whether we call __next__() or name it __anext__(), except that the second requires us to duplicate an existing protocol.
If we must have __aiter__, then we may as well also have __anext__; besides being more consistent, it also allows an object to be both a normol iterator and an asynch iterator. -- ~Ethan~